Africa

The pilot departed London on a solo flight to South Africa with several en route stops. In the evening, he departed Reggane on a leg to Gao, Mali. About an hour into the flight, while cruising at night, the engine failed. The pilot attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed some 275 km south of Reggane, in the Tanezrouft Desert. As the airplane failed to arrive in Gao, SAR operations were initiated but eventually suspended as no trace of the airplane nor the pilot was found. On February 10, 1962, a French military patrol found the wreckage that and the dead body of the pilot that was mummified. In 1975, the wreckage was transferred to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. It was later determined that the pilot survived the accident but died 8 days later of hunger and thirst.

The single engine airplane departed Durban on a taxi flight to Basutoland. En route, the pilot encountered engine problems and made an precautionary landing in an open field located in Bethlehem. After takeoff, control was lost and the airplane crashed in a pasture. Both occupants were rescued and the airplane was damaged beyond repair.

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.

The pilot Sgt Henry Thomas Inglis was completing a post maintenance test flight out from Abu Sueir Airport. The accident occurred in unknown circumstances, killing the pilot, sole on board.

En route from Moshi to Nairobi, the crew encountered marginal weather conditions when the aircraft impacted the slope of a hilly terrain some 24 km north of Lake Magadi. Both occupants were rescued and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The crew was returning to Bizerte Airbase (Karouba) following a combined exercise with another similar aircraft. On final approach, the seaplane encountered sudden and violent squall when the right wing impacted the cliff of the Carrières and crashed. Three crew members were rescued while four others were killed.
Those killed were:
Lt/V Georges Marie Charles Dupuy,
Ens Gilbert Pichery,
2nd Mst Auffray,
Q/Mst Douérin.

A first takeoff attempt from Algiers' harbor was aborted. During the second attempt, the float plane hit waves, nosed down, overturned and came to rest upside down. The pilot and the mechanic were rescued while the radio operator drowned. His dead body was eventually found on January 19, in the Algiers' harbor.
Crew:
Roger Feru, pilot,
Georges Deloustal, mechanic,
Albert Laget, radio navigator. †

Crashed in unknown circumstances while taking part to a joint exercise with local forces. All three crew members were killed.

The pilot departed RAF Abu Sueir on a local solo training mission. The aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances, killing the pilot.

The airplane was engaged in an aerial cinematography flight on behalf of the MGM Studios. The pilot Arthur Dickson was piloting and both passengers were the MGM's President Arthur Loew and his lawyer. For unknown reasons, the pilot mistakenly landed at Victoria Falls Airport instead of Livingstone. While trying to take off from a soft sandy field, the airplane overturned and crashed into trees. Both passengers were injured and the pilot was killed.