G-ACVE

On August 20, 1936 at 12:00 AM, G-ACVE experienced a crash involving Airspeed AS.5 Courier, operated by Airspeed Ltd, with the event recorded near Portsmouth Hampshire.

The flight was categorized as positioning and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 50.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Two employees of the British manufacturer Airspeed Ltd stole this aircraft at Portsmouth Airport in an attempt to fly to Spain to join the Spanish Nationalists in the civil war that started recently. Shortly after liftoff, the single engine aircraft hit a rocky wall and crashed north of the airfield, near a railway line. A crew was killed while the second one was injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-ACVE, MSN 22, year of manufacture 1934.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 50.8221°, -1.0678°.