G-ABCU

On December 3, 1930 at 12:00 AM, G-ABCU experienced a crash involving Desoutter I/II, operated by Winifred Spooner, with the event recorded near Amantea Calabria.

The flight was categorized as private and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew (Winifred Spooner and Edward C. T. Edwards) departed Croydon on a flight to South Africa. After a flight of 16 hours, while cruising along the Italian coast, the airplane crashed in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Amantea. The crew was rescued.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-ABCU, MSN D.32, year of manufacture 1930.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 39.1332°, 16.0746°.