ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 74140
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Date: | Thursday 13 November 1958 |
Time: | |
Type: | De Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth |
Owner/operator: | J.K.Gray |
Registration: | VH-URI |
MSN: | 4084 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Boana, Morobe -
Papua New Guinea
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Boana, Papua New Guinea |
Destination airport: | Goroka, Papua New Guinea |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:To DH Australia with CofA 4117 issued 15.12.33. Registered VH-URI [CofR 473] 22.2.34 to QANTAS Ltd, Brisbane. Sold 10.12.34 and registered 22.1.35 to Qantas Empire Airways Ltd, Archerfield.
Crashed on take-off Wandoola, 8.1.36; repaired. Forced landed and ran into ditch at Mitchell River 27.2.39; repaired. Undercarriage collapsed on take-off Wandoola, 23.1.46; repaired.
Badly damaged when overran strip on take-off Boana, NG 24.11.50; repaired. Registered 30.4.52 to N.R. Wilde, Wau, Papua New Guinea. Re-registered 26.6.58 to J.K. Gray, Goroka, New Guinea.
Crashed on take off from Boana, Papua New Guinea (at an unspecified date in October/November(?) 1958) and registration cancelled 13.11.58
NOTE: Date of 13.11.58 is the date that the registration VH-URI was cancelled, and not necessarily the same date that the accident took place.
Sources:
1.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh83.pdf 2.
http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austu/VH-URI.html 3.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149680999/view 4.
http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/dh83/dh83.htm 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VH-U1.html 6.
http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=20 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Apr-2010 22:37 |
Petro |
Added |
11-Dec-2011 19:03 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Dec-2011 19:12 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Nature, Narrative] |
08-May-2014 19:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
27-Jun-2023 18:38 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [[Source, Narrative]] |
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