Croydon – Le Touquet

On January 22, 1936 at 12:00 AM, Croydon – Le Touquet experienced a crash involving De Havilland DH.84 Dragon, operated by Commercial Air Hire, with the event recorded near Lydd Kent.

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

6 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 6 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 5, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

Just after leaving the English coast, while flying over The Channel, the aircraft went out of control and crashed into The Channel, few km off Lydd, Kent. All six occupants, five passengers and a pilot, were rescued while the aircraft sunk and was lost.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-ACCR, MSN 6011, year of manufacture 1933.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 50.9510°, 0.9065°.