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Crash of a Caudron C.59 off Naples

Date & Time: Dec 23, 1925
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-AEGO
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
3/5055
YOM:
1922
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The crew was engaged in a reconnaissance flight to find new routes to Far East. While approaching the Italian coast following an uneventful flight from Tehran, he encountered technical problems and was forced to ditch the aircraft in the Bay of Naples. Both pilots evacuated safely and were later rescued by the crew of a Danish ship while the aircraft sank and was lost.
Crew:
Maurice Noguès, Chief Pilot
August Morin, mechanic.
Probable cause:
Technical failure.

Crash of a De Havilland DH.9C off Venice: 4 killed

Date & Time: Oct 2, 1922
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EAYT
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Venice - London
MSN:
14
YOM:
1921
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
3
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
Shortly after takeoff from Venice Airport, while climbing, the aircraft named 'Atlanta' crashed in the sea and sank. All four occupants were killed.

Crash of a Caproni Ca.60 in Lake Maggiore

Date & Time: Mar 4, 1921
Type of aircraft:
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Lake Maggiore - Lake Maggiore
MSN:
1
YOM:
1921
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The pilot, sole on board, was engaged in a test flight on this first prototype equipped with nine wings and eight engines. This flight was the first test of the aircraft which was just built few days earlier. After takeoff from Lake Maggiore, while climbing to a height of 18 meters (some 60 feet), the eaplane stalled and crashed in the lake. The pilot Captain Semprini was slightly injured and the aircraft was destroyed. The project was later abandoned.

Crash of a Caproni Ca.48 in Verona: 14 killed

Date & Time: Aug 2, 1919 at 1750 LT
Type of aircraft:
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Venice - Milan
YOM:
1919
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
12
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
14
Circumstances:
The aircraft departed Milan-Taliedo Airport at 0730LT on an uneventful flight to Venice-Marco Polo Airport where it landed at 0922LT. After spending all day in Venice, the aircraft took off around 1700LT for its back trip to Milan. While cruising at a height of 3,000 feet in the vicinity of Verona Airport, the airplane went out of control and crashed in a field. All 14 occupants were killed, which was considered as the worst air disaster at that time. Authorities confirmed that among the 12 passengers were five Italians journalists and seven engineers of the Italian aeroplane company Caproni.
Crew:
Lt Luigi Ridolfi, pilot
Lt Marco Resnati, pilot.

It is believed that the total number of persons on board was 14 but other sources wrote later that the total of death was 16 or 17. This was not confirmed either.

Eye-witnesses said something went wrong with the wings which appeared to flutter and then to collapse. Several of the passengers jumped, but everyone on board was killed.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.12 in Rome: 2 killed

Date & Time: May 17, 1919
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
D5439
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
London – Paris – Pisa – Rome – Cairo
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
1
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The aircraft departed London on a flight to Cairo, carrying four crew members. In Paris, one passenger, Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (awa Lawrence of Arabia) embarked to fly to Cairo after taking part to the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris. While approaching Rome-Centocelle Airport at dusk, the pilot encountered limited visibility and attempted a go-around procedure when the aircraft clipped a tree and crashed upside down. Both pilots were killed and three other occupants were injured.
Crew:
2nd Lt Frederick George Prince, pilot, †
2nd Lt Sydney Spratt, pilot, †
Aircraftman F. J. Daw +1.
Passenger:
Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence.