Le Touquet – Croydon

On July 21, 1930 at 02:35 PM, Le Touquet – Croydon experienced a crash involving Junkers F.13, operated by Walcot Air Line, with the event recorded near Meopham Kent.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley 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: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 4, passenger fatalities: 4, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The aircraft departed Le Touquet on a taxi flight to Croydon, carrying four passengers and a crew of two. While cruising above Kent, the single engine airplane entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in a near vertical attitude in a private garden located in Meopham, some five miles south of Gravesend. The aircraft was destroyed and all six occupants were killed. Crew: George Lochart Henderson, pilot Charles d'Urban Shearing, copilot. Passengers: Mr. Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Mrs. Rosemary Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Viscountess Ednam, Mr. Edward Simons Ward, Mrs. Sigrid Loeffler.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-AAZK, MSN 2052, year of manufacture 1930.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 51.3602°, 0.3639°.