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Date: | Sunday 22 March 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | Air Service Training Ltd |
Registration: | G-AMUD |
MSN: | C1/0825 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bunts Hill Farm, Porchfield, 4 1⁄4 miles SW of Cowes, Isle of Wi -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Hamble, Hampshire (EGHM) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10: First registered in the UK as G-AMUD (C of R R.3779/1) on 2 September 1952 to Air Service Training Ltd., Hamble, Hampshire
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 22 March 1953 when crashed into a field at Bunts Hill Farm, Porchfield, Isle of Wight. The Malayan pilot (Mootatamby THIYAGARAJAH,25) killed and Indian passenger (Irenio Philip FERNANDES,26) seriously injured. According to a contemporary newspaper report ("Portsmouth Evening News" - Monday 23 March 1953-note misspelling of pilots name)
"I.o.W. Plane Crash
THE pilot of a De Havilland Chipmunk training aircraft was killed and his passenger seriously injured yesterday, when the plane went into a spiral dive and crashed into a field at Porchfield, Isle of Wight.
The pilot was Mootatamby Thiryagarayth (25) a Malayan Hindu, who had been living in England several years. He had 150 hours' flying experience and was on a routine training flight preparing to be an airline pilot. His next-of-kin is a brother in Malaya.
His passenger was a 24-year-old Indian, Irenio Philip Fernandes, a navigation student, who has a sister living in Birmingham. He received extensive head injuries and was taken to the Isle of Wight County Hospital, Ryde, where his condition to-day was stated to be "very critical."
Registration G-AMUD cancelled by the Secretary of State, Air Ministry 15 June 1953 as "accident on 22.3.53"
Porchfield is a village on the Isle of Wight between Cowes and Yarmouth. It is located 4 1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) southwest of Cowes in the northwest of the island. It is in the town of Newport.
Sources:
1. The Indian Express 23 March 1953, p 5
2. Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 23 March 1953
3.
http://wight.hampshireairfields.co.uk/iowc.html 4.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AMUD.pdf 5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 219/50:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C414822 6. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 219/51:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C414823 7.
http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15197.0 8.
http://www.delscope.co.uk/aviation/hamble.htm 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porchfield Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jan-2019 20:22 |
TB |
Added |
10-Dec-2019 02:39 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
16-Dec-2019 21:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
15-Jun-2020 06:02 |
Tony Bevis |
Updated [Narrative] |
04-Aug-2021 15:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |