Cape Town – Johannesburg – Pretoria – Livingstone – Elizabethville – Tabora

On October 18, 1928 at 12:00 AM, Cape Town – Johannesburg – Pretoria – Livingstone – Elizabethville – Tabora experienced a crash involving Avro 594 Avian, operated by Henry Drummond Wolff, with the event recorded near Muchinga Hills Southern.

The flight was categorized as private and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

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

The pilot Murdoch was performing a private flight from South Africa back to England. Few minutes after his departure from Livingstone, he encountered unspecified problems when the aircraft crashed on a mountain slope located in the Muchinga Hills. The aircraft named 'John' was destroyed and the pilot was seriously injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-EBVU, MSN 111, year of manufacture 1928.