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Date: | Saturday 13 July 1935 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.60G Moth |
Owner/operator: | Bombay Flying Club |
Registration: | VT-AFK |
MSN: | 1907 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lohegaon, 7 miles North-East of Poona (Pune), Maharashtra -
India
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Juhu Airstrip, Bombay (Mumbai) India |
Destination airport: | Poona (Pune), Maharashtra, India |
Narrative:A Bombay Flying Club Moth crashed on landing at Poona (Pune), Maharashtra, India, killing passenger Fali A Kharadi and injuring pilot R Kashner.
Aircraft involved was possibly VT-AFK.
Sources:
1.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh60.pdf 2.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60g-moth-pune-1-killed 3.
http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ABYI.pdf 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A4.htmll 5. As G-ABYI:
https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-gb-registers-g-ab/g-ab-part-2?highlight=WyJnLWFieWkiXQ== 6. As VT-AFK:
https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-india-register/g-iaaa-to-vt-aim?highlight=WyJnLWFieWkiXQ== 7.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VT-.html 8.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p019.html 9.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/vt-aaa.pdf 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune_Airport#History
History of this aircraft
c/no. 1907: DH.60G Moth [Gipsy I] registered as G-ABYI [C of R 3843] 14.7.32 to Brooklands Aero Club, Brooklands, West Byfleet, Surrey. C of A 3531 issued 14.7.32. Re-registered [C of R 4599] 15.7.33 to Conrad R Cooke, Brooklands. Re-registered [C of R 5094] 22.5.34 to Bombay Flying Club, India. UK Registration G-ABYI cancelled as sold 11.34.
Re-registered in India as VT-AFK 29.10.34 to Bombay Flying Club Ltd, Juhu Airstrip, Bombay (now Mumbai) India.
Indian registration VT-AFK cancelled as written off 7.1.36
Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Dec-2017 17:32 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
30-Oct-2023 17:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated |
27-Feb-2024 20:43 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
27-Feb-2024 20:45 |
ASN |
Updated [Narrative] |