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Crash of a Felixstowe F.5 off RAF Calshot

Date & Time: Sep 12, 1922
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
N4639
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Region:
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
Shortly after takeoff from RAF Calshot, the seaplane suffered an engine failure and crashed in the sea. All six crew members were rescued and the aircraft sank.
Probable cause:
Engine failure.

Crash of an Avro 504K in Farnborough: 1 killed

Date & Time: Feb 8, 1922
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
H9829
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The crew departed Farnborough for a training mission. During initial climb, the airplane impacted trees and crashed. A pilot was killed on the second was injured.
Crew:
F/Lt Robert Charles Jenkins, †
F/O Allan Hesketh.

Crash of an Avro 504K in Farnborough: 1 killed

Date & Time: Feb 24, 1921
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F8751
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Farnborough - Farnborough
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The crew was completing a local training flight at Farnborough Airport, Hampshire. On approach, the airplane went out of control and crashed in Cove, north of the airfield. One crew member was killed and the second was slightly injured.
Crew:
F/O William Leslie Gordon Spinney, †
F/O Allan Hesketh.

Crash of a De Havilland DH.9 in Portsdown Hill: 1 killed

Date & Time: May 1, 1919 at 0530 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EAAA
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Hendon - Bournemouth
MSN:
C6054
YOM:
1919
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The aircraft departed Hendon on a night mail flight to Bournemouth, carrying one pilot and a load of newspapers. While descending to Portsmouth, the pilot encountered low visibility due to thick fog when the airpane impacted the top of a hill and crashed in Portsdown Hill, north of Portsmouth. The pilot, Captain Howard J. Saint, sole on board, was killed.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.12 in Andover: 5 killed

Date & Time: Apr 22, 1919 at 0230 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F3748
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Andover - Andover
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
5
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The twin engine airplane was engaged in a night training flight over the British Isles. While taking off by night from Andover Airfield, the aircraft encountered difficulties and crashed on a building, bursting into flames. Two passengers were seriously injured while five other occupants were killed.
Crew:
Maj Thomas Archibald Batchelor, †
Flt Lt Reginald Arthur Walter Adkins, †
Lt Arthur Barlow Whiteside, †
Flt Sgt Horace Henry Heales, †
Cpl Edgar George Ward, †
Lt Edward Albert Westall,
Flt Sgt Herbert William Smith.