Saint Catharines - Saint Catharines

On September 14, 1929 at 06:00 PM, Saint Catharines - Saint Catharines experienced a crash involving Travel Air 6000, operated by Skyways - Canada, with the event recorded near Saint Catharines Ontario.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

6 people were known to be on board, 6 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: 5, passenger fatalities: 5, other fatalities: 0.

From the 13 to the 15 of September 1929 was the official ceremony for the opening days and inauguration of the Saint Catharines Airport which was later renamed Niagara District Airport. On the second day of this ceremony, a Travel Air 6000A operated by Skyways Canada was performing pleasure tours around the city of Saint Catharines. In the afternoon, the single engine airplane departed Saint Catharines Airport with five passengers and one pilot for a local joyride. En route, the airplane went out of control and crashed in a field located in Merritton, about 5 km southwest of the aerodrome. The aircraft was destroyed and all six occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration CF-ABE, MSN 1024, year of manufacture 1929.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 43.1708°, -79.2288°.