Lympne - Allahabad - Singapore - Sydney

On November 8, 1935 at 12:00 AM, Lympne - Allahabad - Singapore - Sydney experienced a crash involving Lockheed 8 Sirius/Altair, operated by Private Australian, with the event recorded near Myanmar All Myanmar.

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, 2 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: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot John Thompson 'Tommy' Pethybridge were flying the aircraft christened 'Lady Southern Cross' overnight from Allahabad, India, to Singapore, as part of their attempt to break the England-Australia speed record held by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, when they disappeared over the Andaman Sea in the early hours of 8 November 1935. Despite brave search for 74 hours over the Bay of Bengal by test pilot Eric Stanley Greenwood OBE, their bodies were never recovered. Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel (with its tyre still inflated) which had been washed ashore at Aye Island in the Gulf of Martaban, some three km off the southeast coastline of Burma, some 137 km south of Mottama (formerly known as Martaban). Lockheed confirmed the undercarriage leg to be from the 'Lady Southern Cross'. Botanists who examined the weeds clinging to the undercarriage leg estimated that the aircraft itself lies not far from the island at a depth of approximately 27 meters. The undercarriage leg is now on public display at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

Aircraft reference details include registration VH-USB, MSN 152, year of manufacture 1935.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 16.8809°, 96.1193°.