ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 121269
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| Date: | Monday 17 October 1927 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | De Havilland DH.50J |
| Owner/operator: | North Sea Aerial & General Transport Ltd |
| Registration: | G-EBOP |
| MSN: | 281 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kisumu, Nyanza -
 Kenya
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Khartoum Airport, Khartoum, Sudan (KRT/HSSS) |
| Kisumu, Nyanza, Kenya | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
De Havilland DH.50J G-EBOP (reported in several published sources as being converted to a floatplane). First regsitered as G-EBOP on 5/7/1926 to North Sea Aerial & General Transport Ltd. Named "Pelican".
At the start of January 1927, the North Sea Aerial and General Transport company attempted to make its first mail flight from Khartoum to Kisumu in a DH.50J seaplane (G-EBOP) flown by T.A. Gladstone. The Kenya and Uganda Governments had agreed to pay £2,500 each and Sudan £2,000 to help fund the service but the venture was very short-lived after the aircraft hit a piece of jetsam and crashed on take-off on 17/10/1927
Written off (damaged beyond repair) in a takeoff accident at Kisumu, Nyanza, Kenya on 17/10/27 whilst carrying mail from the UK to Nairobi, Kenya (via Cairo, Egypt, Khartoum, Sudan and Jinja, Belgian Congo).
Sources:
1. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh50j-kisumu
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-E3.html
3. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/82-register-gb-g-eb
4. https://mxdoc.com/imperial-airways-the-birth-of-the-british-airline-industry-1.html
5. http://www.egyptstudycircle.org.uk/ET/ET33.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 December 1926 | G-EBOP | North Sea Aerial & General Transport | 0 | Kisumu, Nyanza | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Mar-2011 13:32 | Johnny Johnny | Added |
| 19-Mar-2018 20:54 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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