ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 222591
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| Date: | Friday 4 August 1961 |
| Time: | overnight |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Madras Presidency Airways Ltd, Madras. |
| Registration: | VT-CBY |
| MSN: | 6869 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Dum Dum Airfield, Jessore Road, Calcutta, West Bengal -
 India
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta (Kolkatta)(VECC) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
C/no. 6869: Taken on charge as NR793 at 76 MU 20.3.45. To India; shipped ex South Shields on the s.s "City of Florence" 23.4.45; arrived Bombay 1.6.45. Loaned [by 12.45] to H.E.H Nizam of Hyderabad [in lieu of a DH.90]; formally presented to him 25.4.46 and Struck off charge.
Registered as VT-CBY [mid-1946] to Deccan Airways Ltd, Hyderabad (also with c/n "BCL 89520" - presumably the Brush Coachworks Ltd fuselage number). Re-registered 8.5.47 to Air Services of India Ltd, Bombay; named “Gaganrekh”. Re-registered 19.10.49 to Vardaraja Airways Ltd, Madras. Re-registered 21.3.55 to Madras Presidency Airways Ltd, Madras.
Damaged in gales when parked as Calcutta 14.6.60 [repaired and returned to service]. Damaged in gales again when parked at Dum Dum Airport, Jessore Road, Dum Dum, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India 4.8.61. Registration VT-CBY belatedly cancelled in 1978
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p068.html
3. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%200914.PDF
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netaji_Subhas_Chandra_Bose_International_Airport#Accidents_and_incidents
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Mar-2019 02:19 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
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