ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342443
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| Date: | Tuesday 28 March 1933 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Argosy II |
| Owner/operator: | Imperial Airways |
| Registration: | G-AACI |
| MSN: | AW.363 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1928 |
| Engine model: | Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IVA |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Diksmuide -
 Belgium
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Brussel-Haren Airport |
| London-Croydon Airport (-/-) |
Aircraft, named "City of Liverpool" crashed after in-flight fire. After the fire started, the pilot tried to make an emergency landing. As it descended from 2000ft, it was seen trailing smoke from the tail section, at about 200ft it broke in two and crashed.
The precise cause of the fire could not established. The investigators narrowed the cause down to the firing of some combustible substance, either accidentally by a passenger or crew member or through vibration or some other natural occurrence, or deliberately by bombing.
It was thought that a fire in the lavatory of plane was caused by passenger Dr. Albert Voss, a dentist from Manchester, who supposedly attempted to commit suicide. He jumped from the plane before it crashed.
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