Crash of a Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing in Jeanerette

Date & Time: Jan 31, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
NC3466
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
5
YOM:
1928
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
On final approach to Jeanerette, the engine failed. The aircraft lost height, contacted tree tops and crashed in a wooded area. The pilot was injured and the aircraft was destroyed.
Probable cause:
Engine failure on final approach.

Crash of a Latécoère 25.6 in the Mediterranean Sea: 2 killed

Date & Time: Jan 25, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-AJCL
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Buenos Aires – Montevideo – Natal – Recife – Dakar – Casablanca – Alicante – Barcelona – Perpignan – Toulouse
MSN:
691
YOM:
1929
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
On the leg from Casablanca to Alicante, while cruising by night between Spain and Morocco, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with thunderstorm activity. The aircraft went out of control and crashed in the sea, maybe between Ceuta and Melilla. SAR were organized but all operations were suspended after few days as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. More than a month later, in March 1930, a mail package was found on a beach in Mostaganem.
Crew:
Alphonse Bruyère, pilot,
Léopold Aubry, radio navigator.

Crash of a Latécoère 25.3R in Kenitra

Date & Time: Jan 19, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-AIEJ
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
609
YOM:
1926
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
Upon landing in Kenitra, the aircraft went out of control and crashed. Both crew members were injured.

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

Date & Time: Jan 13, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-AJJK
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Antananarivo - Paris
MSN:
7160
YOM:
1929
Region:
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.

Crash of a Boeing 95 near Cedar City: 1 killed

Date & Time: Jan 11, 1930 at 0238 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
NC420E
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Site:
Schedule:
Los Angeles – Las Vegas – Salt Lake City
MSN:
1064
YOM:
1929
Location:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The pilot Maurice Graham was performing a mail flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City with an intermediate stop in Las Vegas. He departed Las Vegas at 2200LT bound for Salt Lake City. While flying at night over the mountains east of Cedar City, Utah, he encountered poor weather conditions with blizzard. At a height of 12,000 feet, the aircraft stalled and crash landed on a mountain slope. The pilot was unhurt and walked away with the mail package. As the aircraft did not arrive in Salt Lake City, SAR operations were initiated but no trace of the aircraft nor the pilot was found. Eventually, Ward Mortenson and Elburn Orton, two youthful sheepherders, found the wreckage of the aircraft on 24 June 1930 some 22 miles south of Cedar City, in the Kanarra Mountains. The dead body of the pilot was found few days later, in July 1930, six miles away from the crash site.

Crash of a Boeing 95 in Brownson: 1 killed

Date & Time: Jan 10, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
NC184E
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
San Francisco – Chicago
MSN:
1047
YOM:
1929
Location:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
En route to Chicago while on a mail flight from San Francisco, the pilot encountered poor visibility due to foggy conditions. The pilot Charles Kenwood attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed in an open field located in Brownson. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot, sole on board, was killed.

Crash of a Curtiss Robin B in Woodbine: 1 killed

Date & Time: Jan 9, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
NC8326
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Columbia - Miami
MSN:
203
YOM:
1929
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
En route from Columbia to Miami, the pilot lost control of the airplane that entered a dive and crashed in a marshy field near Woodbine. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot Neva Estelle Paris was killed.

Crash of a Fokker Super Universal in Whitby

Date & Time: Jan 7, 1930
Type of aircraft:
Registration:
CF-AJG
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
CV-142
YOM:
1930
Location:
Country:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
While performing a mail flight, the pilot was forced to attempt an emergency landing for unknown reasons. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and the pilot was uninjured.

Crash of a CMASA Wal Asso 500 Cabina of Ágios Efstrátios Island: 5 killed

Date & Time: Dec 24, 1929 at 1300 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
I-AZDB
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Istanbul - Athens
MSN:
079
YOM:
1928
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The seaplane departed Istanbul at 1000LT on a mail flight to Athens with a crew of five on board. At 1230LT, the radio operator reported his position over Lesbos Island. About 30 minutes later, the crew encountered engine problems and attempted to ditch the aircraft in the Aegean Sea off the Ágios Efstrátios Island. SAR operations were initiated but no trace of the aircraft nor the 5 crew members was ever found, among them Captain Achille Rossi.
Probable cause:
Engine failure in flight.

Crash of a CAMS 53/1 off the Balearic Islands

Date & Time: Dec 24, 1929
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-AJJQ
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Marseille – Algiers
MSN:
16
YOM:
1929
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
En route from Marseille to Algiers and while approaching the Balearic Islands, the crew encountered an engine failure. The pilot Max Ringel ditched the aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea. All three crew members were rescued. The aircraft sank was lost. Brand new, it was delivered 30 November 1929.
Probable cause:
Engine failure.