Crash of a Vickers 170 Vanguard in Shepperton: 2 killed

Date & Time: May 16, 1929
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EBCP
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Brooklands - Brooklands
MSN:
1
YOM:
1922
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The crew departed Brooklands on a test flight. While cruising at an altitude of 2,000 feet, the airplane suffered a structural failure with the tail that failed. The aircraft entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in an open field located near Shepperton. The aircraft was totally destroyed and both crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Edward Rodolph Clement 'Tiny' Scholefield, pilot,
S. W. Sherratt, mechanic.
Probable cause:
The tail unit apparently failed in flight as a result of an excessive rudder force.

Crash of an Avro 548 in Brooklands

Date & Time: Nov 29, 1928
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EBVE
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Brooklands - Brooklands
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The crew was completing a local training flight at Brooklands Airport. Upon landing, the aircraft went out of control and crashed. Both occupants were rescued.

Crash of an Avro 504K in Brooklands: 1 killed

Date & Time: Sep 20, 1928
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EBFM
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Brooklands - Brooklands
MSN:
H2070
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The pilot, sole on board, departed Brooklands Airport for a local training flight. Shortly after takeoff, while in initial climb, the pilot initiated a turn when the airplane stalled and crashed. The pilot Margaret Honor Wellby was killed.

Crash of an Avro 548 in Brooklands

Date & Time: Apr 9, 1928
Type of aircraft:
Registration:
G-EABJ
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
E3043
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
2
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
Shortly after takeoff from Brooklands Airport, the aircraft stalled and crashed near the airfield. The airplane was damaged beyond repair and all three occupants were injured.

Crash of an Avro 504K in Paris

Date & Time: Jun 9, 1925
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EAMZ
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Brooklands – Paris
MSN:
E3724
YOM:
1919
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The single engine airplane crashed on landing at Paris-Le Bourget Airport. The pilot was injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

Crash of an Avro 504K on Hayling Island

Date & Time: Aug 11, 1923
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EAIR
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Brooklands - Hayling Island
MSN:
E4164
YOM:
1919
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
2
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
Crashed in unknown circumstances upon landing on Hayling Island. While all three occupants were slightly injured, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Crash of a Vickers 54 Viking IV in Brooklands: 2 killed

Date & Time: Apr 13, 1922
Registration:
G-EBBZ
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Brooklands - Brooklands
MSN:
15
YOM:
1922
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The crew was performing a local test flight at Brooklands Airport. While flying at an altitude of about 1,000 feet, the aircraft entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed near the aerodrome, killing both occupants, the British aviator Jim Mallett Bennett and Ross McPherson Smith who completed the first flight from England to Australia in 1919.
Probable cause:
Loss of control following a pilot error.

Crash of an Avro 504K in Joyce Green

Date & Time: Apr 30, 1920
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EACV
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Joyce Green - Brooklands
MSN:
E4233
YOM:
1919
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The pilot was performing a training flight from Joyce Green Airport, in Dartford, Kent, to Brooklands Airport, Weybridge, Surrey. Shortly after take off, he lost control of the aircraft that crashed in a field. While the pilot was injured, the aircraft was destroyed.

Crash of an Avro 504K in Brooklands

Date & Time: Apr 15, 1920
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EADS
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
H2507
YOM:
1919
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
Crashed while taking off from Brooklands Airfield. The pilot was injured.

Crash of a Vickers Viking 1 in Cottévrard: 1 killed

Date & Time: Dec 18, 1919 at 1300 LT
Operator:
Registration:
G-EAOV
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Brooklands - Paris
MSN:
1
YOM:
1919
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The British aviator John William Alcock departed Brooklands (Weybridge) that day to Paris-Le Bourget to take part to the first airplane exhibition in Europe after the WWI. While overflying Seine-Maritime, the pilot lost control of the seaplane that crashed in Cottévrard, some 20 km north of Rouen. The pilot was seriously injured (skull fracture) and died few hours later. He performed the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland last 15JUN1919 with Arthur Whitten Brown. He was aged 27.