Brooklands – Cairo – Gebelein – Kisumu – Mwanza – Tabora – Cape Town

On February 28, 1920 at 02:00 PM, Brooklands – Cairo – Gebelein – Kisumu – Mwanza – Tabora – Cape Town experienced a crash involving Vickers FB.27 Vimy Commercial, operated by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, with the event recorded near Tabora Tabora Region.

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

5 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 5 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 1, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew was performing a flight from UK to South Africa. En route, he encountered several technical problems. At 0650LT, the aircraft took off from Tabora Airport but the cooling system failed shortly later. The pilots returned to Tabora and made the appropriate repairs. The aircraft took off again at 1400LT but shortly later, the left engine failed. The aircraft stalled and crashed in an acacias area near the airport. While all five occupants were injured, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. The flight was one of the first transafrican cross country flight from London to Cape Town and was sponsored by the London Times.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-EAAV, MSN K-107, year of manufacture 1919.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -5.0189°, 32.8047°.