ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342340
| Date: | Friday 25 September 1936 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boulton Paul P.71A |
| Owner/operator: | Imperial Airways |
| Registration: | G-ACOX |
| MSN: | P.71A/1 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1934 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Dungeness -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | London-Croydon Airport (-/-) |
| Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB) |
The first Boulton Paul P.71A aircraft, registered G-ACOX and named 'Boadicea' was lost in the English Channel, off Dungeness, Kent, on 25.9.36 while on an air-mail flight from Croydon to Le Bourget, Paris with the loss of the two crew: Captain Alfred Cecil Thomas (pilot, aged 36) and Harold Eugene Percival (wireless operator, aged 31).
Sources:
Flight International
Location
Images:
photo (c) TSRL; August 1934; (publicdomain)
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