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Crash of a De Havilland DH.60G Moth in Nursling: 2 killed

Date & Time: Mar 31, 1936
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-AAWS
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Hamble - HAmble
MSN:
1239
YOM:
1930
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The airplane departed Hamble on a local training flight, carrying one cadet and one instructor. En route, the airplane went out of control, entered a dive and crashed in a pasture in Nursling, northwest of Southampton. The aircraft was destroyed and both occupants were killed. The cadet was making his first flight as a pupil of the Hampshire Aeroplane Club which he had joined in the morning.
Crew:
Alan Cecil Buchan,
Clive Nuttall.