Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
27AUG1923
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
F-AECB
Location
 
East Malling
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
London - Paris
 
Construction number
 
4
Year of manufacture
 
1922
     
Crew on board
 
2
Pax on board
 
11
Crew fatalities
 
0
Pax fatalities
 
1
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
1

Circumstances
 
Few minutes after take off from London Airport, bound for Paris, aircraft went out of control and crashed in an open field in East Malling, Kent. One passenger was killed as all other occupants were injured.
Causes
 

An engine failed few minutes after take off.



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