Crash of a Potez 33 near Mahatsinjo: 1 killed

Date & Time: Feb 11, 1933 at 1130 LT
Type of aircraft:
Potez 33
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Postal (mail)
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Mahajanga – Antananarivo
Location:
Mahatsinjo
Mahajanga Province
Country:
Madagascar
Region:
Africa
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The pilot, sole on board, departed Mahajanga on a mail flight to Antananarivo. En route, the single engine airplane crashed in unknown circumstances 7 km from the village of Mahatsinjo. The pilot Sgt Lucien Dewost was killed.

Crash of a Farman F.197 in Dibaya: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jan 13, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Farman F.190
Operator:
Registration:
F-AJJK
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Postal (mail)
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Antananarivo - Paris
MSN:
7160
YOM:
1929
Location:
Dibaya
Kasai-Occidental
Country:
Democratic Republic of Congo
Region:
Africa
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The crew departed Algiers on 13DEC1929 bound for Antananarivo where he arrived on 01JAN1930. On 10JAN1930, the crew departed Antananarivo for his back trip to Paris, with intermediate stops in Quelimane and Elizabethville. Few minutes after its departure from Port-Francqui, the aircraft crashed in the jungle near Dibaya, Kasai. The wreckage and the dead bodies of the crew members were found on 13MAR1930 in an isolated area.
Crew:
Léopold Roux, pilot,
Raymond Caillol, radio,
Eric Dodemont, mechanic.
Probable cause:
The cause of the accident could not be determined.
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