West Malling - Kingsdown

On April 21, 1936 at 12:00 AM, West Malling - Kingsdown experienced a crash involving De Havilland DH.60 Moth, operated by Private British, with the event recorded near Penrith Cumbria.

The flight was categorized as private and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 1 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: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The aircraft was owned by John Kempton Lawrence but piloted that day by Archibald J. Moffat who was travelling from West Malling to Kingsdown, in the region of Carlisle. En route, he encountered low visibility due to poor weather conditions and the single engine aircraft hit a slope of Mt Cross Fell, the highest mountain in the Pennine Hills at 893 meters. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-AARE, MSN 1176, year of manufacture 1930.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 54.7630°, -1.5760°.