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Crash of a Douglas DC-2-115B in Senlis: 5 killed

Date & Time: Jan 7, 1939 at 1630 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
HB-ITA
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Zurich – Paris
MSN:
1329
YOM:
1935
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
14
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
While descending to Paris-Le Bourget Airport in marginal weather conditions, the crew failed to realize he was flying too low. The twin engine aircraft hit the ground and lost partially its both wings before coming to rest in an open field located in Senlis, some 30 km northeast of Le Bourget Airport. The cabin remained relatively intact while the cockpit was destroyed. Two passengers and all three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Egon Frei, pilot,
Kurt Walter, radio navigator,
Josie Brooke, stewardess.

Crash of a Vultee V-1A in Beauvais

Date & Time: Aug 15, 1937
Type of aircraft:
Registration:
F-AQAL
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Beauvais – Toulouse – Barcelona
MSN:
184
YOM:
1935
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The aircraft was supposed to be delivered to the Spanish Air Forces in Barcelona. Shortly after takeoff from Beauvais-Tillé Airport, the crew encountered an unexpected situation and was forced to attempt an emergency landing. The single engine airplane crash landed in a wheat field, lost its undercarriage and slid for few dozen metres before coming to rest. Both crewmen were uninjured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Crash of a Waco UIC in Mont-l’Évêque: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jan 19, 1937 at 1445 LT
Type of aircraft:
Registration:
PH-MAG
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Paris – Rotterdam
MSN:
3790
YOM:
1933
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
2
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The single engine airplane departed Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 1415LT on a flight to Rotterdam with two passengers and two crew members on board. Thirty minutes into the flight, while cruising at an altitude of 300 metres, the aircraft rolled to the left, entered a dive and crashed in a swampy area located in Mont-l'Evêque, east of Senlis. All four occupants were killed. The crew was repatriating the aircraft to The Netherlands as his owner, Mr. M. A. G. van der Leeuw, died in another Waco crash near Rotterdam 3 December 1936.
Crew:
Joachim Tissot, pilot,
Albertus Sommer, pilot.
Passengers:
Adriamis Hoertens,
Jacob Maltha.
Probable cause:
The accident is attributable to an in-flight breakup of the left airframe following, it seems, a resource following either a spin or a spiral and nose-down descent. The pilot who, at a given moment was in the clouds, would thus have, for a cause that the commission could not specify, lost the control of the plane. The aircraft would then have entered a spin or a steep dive and the pilot would have pulled it up sharply in sight of the ground, coming out of the clouds. It should be noted that the maximum load of 1'540 kilos indicated on the certificate of airworthiness was largely reached and that the speed of the aircraft must, at the time it was righted, have been very close to the speed limit of 300 km/h and that it could not, under these conditions, resist the acceleration due to a brutal resource.

Crash of a Sabca F7/3m in Silly-le-Long: 2 killed

Date & Time: Apr 21, 1936 at 2100 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
OO-AIF
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Paris – Brussels – Cologne
YOM:
1929
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The crew was performing a cargo flight from Paris to Cologne with an intermediate stop in Brussels. Few minutes after takeoff from Paris-Le Bourget Airport, the three engine aircraft went out of control and crashed in an open field located in Silly-le-Long, some 30 km northeast of Le Bourget Airport. Both crew members were killed.

Crash of a Sabca F.VIIb/3m in Senlis

Date & Time: Apr 21, 1935
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
OO-AGK
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Paris – Brussels
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
0
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in Senlis while on a flight from Paris-Le Bourget to Brussels. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and all occupants escaped uninjured.

Crash of a Lioré-et-Olivier LeO H-213 in Beauvais

Date & Time: Nov 16, 1933 at 0900 LT
Operator:
Registration:
F-AIFD
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Schedule:
Paris – Croydon
MSN:
01
YOM:
1926
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The crew departed Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 0840LT on a mail flight to Croydon. Twenty minutes later, while cruising at an altitude of 1,000 metres, the left engine caught fire. The crew decided to bail out and abandoned the aircraft that impacted an electricity pole and the roof of a factory before crashing in an affluent of the Avelon River, bursting into flames. Both pilots were uninjured while the aircraft was destroyed. All mail, more than one ton, was also destroyed.
Probable cause:
In-flight fire on the left engine.

Crash of a Blériot 115 in Daméraucourt: 1 killed

Date & Time: Jun 23, 1923 at 1330 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-ESBB
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Le Touquet - Toussus-le-Noble
MSN:
1
YOM:
1923
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
After taking part to an airshow in Le Touquet to introduce this new four engine aircraft (first prototype), the crew was returning to his base in Toussus-le-Noble. While cruising at an altitude of 600 metres over Daméraucourt, some 4 km north of Grandvilliers, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in the forest of Vieuville. While the mechanic was uninjured, the pilot was killed instantly. The aircraft was named 'Le Mammouth'.
Crew:
Jean Casale, pilot,
Gaston Boulet, mechanic.
Probable cause:
Loss of control in flight after the rudder control cable got jammed.

Crash of a Farman F.60 Goliath in Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine: 5 killed

Date & Time: Apr 7, 1922 at 1400 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-GEAD
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Paris - Croydon
MSN:
23
YOM:
1920
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
3
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The aircraft was completing a regular schedule flight from Paris-Le Bourget to Croydon with three passengers and a crew of two on board. While cruising at a height of 500 feet in foggy conditions, the aircraft collided with a De Havilland DH.18A operated by Daimler Airway and registered G-EAWO. It appears that the DH.18 hit the upper left wing of the Farman which detached. Both aircraft crashed in an open field (a piece of wing crashed on the roof of a house) and were destroyed. While the British pilot was seriously injured, all other six occupants were killed. The only survivor died from his injuries few hours later. The collision occurred in Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, some four km south of Grandvilliers and 27 km north of Beauvais, Oise. At the time of the accident, the visibility was reduced due to fog. First collision in commercial aviation history.
Crew:
Jean Mire, pilot
Mr. Simonet, mechanic
Passengers:
Mr Bouriez, engineer by CGEA,
Mr & Mrs Christopher Bruce Yule, American citizens who were on honeymoon and travelling back to the US via London.
Probable cause:
Both crews were apparently trying to maintain visual contact with the ground while flying under a low overcast, and must have simply failed to see each other in time to prevent the accident. It was also reported that G-EAWO had been slightly to the left of the proper course, maybe due to the inexperience of the pilot on this line. Priority rules should be the same in aviation as on the road but in the present case, experts confirmed these rules were not the same in UK and France. So new priority rules will come into force following this tragic event.

Crash of a De Havilland DH.18A in Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine: 2 killed

Date & Time: Apr 7, 1922 at 1400 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EAWO
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Croydon - Paris
MSN:
DH.18/04
YOM:
1921
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The aircraft was completing a regular schedule flight from Paris-Le Bourget to Croydon with three passengers and a crew of two on board. While cruising at a height of 500 feet in foggy conditions, the aircraft collided with a De Havilland DH.18A operated by Daimler Airway and registered G-EAWO. It appears that the DH.18 hit the upper left wing of the Farman which detached. Both aircraft crashed in an open field (a piece of wing crashed on the roof of a house) and were destroyed. While the British pilot was seriously injured, all other six occupants were killed. The only survivor died from his injuries few hours later. The collision occurred in Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, some four km south of Grandvilliers and 27 km north of Beauvais, Oise. At the time of the accident, the visibility was reduced due to fog. First collision in commercial aviation history.
Crew:
Robin E. Duke, pilot
Edward Hesterman, steward.
Probable cause:
Both crews were apparently trying to maintain visual contact with the ground while flying under a low overcast, and must have simply failed to see each other in time to prevent the accident. It was also reported that G-EAWO had been slightly to the left of the proper course, maybe due to the inexperience of the pilot on this line. Priority rules should be the same in aviation as on the road but in the present case, experts confirmed these rules were not the same in UK and France. So new priority rules will come into force following this tragic event.

Crash of a Handley Page HP.11 in Senlis

Date & Time: Jan 14, 1922
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EATN
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Croydon - Paris
MSN:
HP.43
YOM:
1920
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
3
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
En route from Croydon to Paris, the crew encountered poor weather conditions and decided to land at Beauvais Airport. The crew called Paris Airport and was advised that the weather had improved slightly, so he decided to take off and proceed to Paris. While approaching Paris, the crew encountered poor visibility due to fog and low clouds. He descended too early and too low when the aircraft impacted ground and crashed in an open field located in Senlis, some 30 km northeast of Le Bourget Airport. The aircraft came to rest almost vertically on its nose. All three passengers escaped unhurt and both crew members were injured.
Crew:
Cpt R. H. McIntosh,
Wireless operator S. A. Freddy Dismore.