Country
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Vienne
Crash of a Douglas C-47B-1-DK in Poitiers
Date & Time:
Apr 30, 1959
Operator:
Registration:
F-BAII
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
15105/25550
YOM:
1944
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
After touchdown at Poitiers-Biard Airport, the aircraft was unable to stop within the remaining distance. It overran, lost its undercarriage and came to rest few yards farther. While both crew members were uninjured, the aircraft was written off.
Crash of a Douglas DC-3A in Poitiers
Date & Time:
Jan 8, 1958 at 1415 LT
Operator:
Registration:
F-BAOA
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Poitiers - Poitiers
MSN:
11708
YOM:
1943
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
6
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Captain / Total hours on type:
427.00
Copilot / Total hours on type:
63
Circumstances:
The aircraft was dispatched at Poitiers-Biard Airport for training purposes. The crew (five pilots under supervision, one instructor and two passengers) left the airport at 1245LT for local training mission. While approaching the airfield with one engine voluntarily inoperative, the crew encountered difficulties with the undercarriage that failed to lock down in time. The instructor decided to make a go around when the airplane banked right and crashed on a military building housing ammunition. All eight occupants were injured and evacuated while the aircraft was destroyed. No one on ground was injured.
Probable cause:
The accident was due to the successive appearance of two incidents during a training exercise: slowness of the landing gear to extend; failure of the right engine to pick up power. The crew which included a pilot under training and a mechanic with limited experience, did not properly co-ordinate their actions. The instructor, because of his position in the cockpit, was unable to assist.
Final Report:
Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV near Charroux: 3 killed
Date & Time:
Jun 18, 1940
Operator:
Registration:
L9317
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Tangmere - Marseille
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The crew departed RAF Tangmere in the early morning on a transfer flight to the Middle East via Marseille. En route, the crew encountered poor weather conditions when the airplane crashed in an open field located in La Maillerie, two km south of Charroux. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Colin Wright Handley, pilot,
LAC James Gilbert Broadbent Thomas, observer,
Sgt Patrick Denis Humphrey McGovern, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Colin Wright Handley, pilot,
LAC James Gilbert Broadbent Thomas, observer,
Sgt Patrick Denis Humphrey McGovern, air gunner.
