Camden - Camden

On December 1, 1954 at 12:00 PM, Camden - Camden experienced a crash involving De Havilland DH.104 Dove, operated by De Havilland Aircraft UK, with the event recorded near Camden New South Wales.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 33.3%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew was engaged in a local training flight to be familiarized on this aircraft that was registered on the Australian registry two days earlier. Shortly after takeoff, while climbing, the airplane crashed in a field and was destroyed. A pilot was killed while two other occupants were injured. Crew: Cpt T. H. Dalton, pilot, Reginald C. Adsett, examiner, † R. H. Jarvis, assistant to Mr. Adsett.

Aircraft reference details include registration VH-DHD, MSN 04400, year of manufacture 1953.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -34.0352°, 150.7611°.