Brooklands - Paris

On December 18, 1919 at 01:00 PM, Brooklands - Paris experienced a crash involving Vickers Viking (Serie I/II/III & IV), operated by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, with the event recorded near Cottévrard Seine-Maritime.

The flight was categorized as positioning and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The British aviator John William Alcock departed Brooklands (Weybridge) that day to Paris-Le Bourget to take part to the first airplane exhibition in Europe after the WWI. While overflying Seine-Maritime, the pilot lost control of the seaplane that crashed in Cottévrard, some 20 km north of Rouen. The pilot was seriously injured (skull fracture) and died few hours later. He performed the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland last 15JUN1919 with Arthur Whitten Brown. He was aged 27.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-EAOV, MSN 1, year of manufacture 1919.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 49.6331°, 1.2225°.