Glasgow – Liverpool

On February 2, 1937 at 12:00 AM, Glasgow – Liverpool experienced a crash involving De Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly, operated by Daily Express Newspaper, with the event recorded near Newton Stewart Wigtownshire.

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

4 people were known to be on board, 4 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: 2, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The twin engine aircraft was used to prove a safe air route from Glasgow-Renfrew to Liverpool-Speke under the sponsorship (and ownership) of the Daily Express in an unofficial response to a report by the Maybury Air Committee into the opening up of routes linking various British cities. The aircraft left Glasgow-Renfrew Airport and headed south to Liverpool but nothing further was heard and when it failed to arrive at its destination, a SAR operation was started. A local resident found the debris on a hill two days later, near the Clatteringshaws Reservoir, some 16 miles southwest of Newton Stewart. All four occupants were killed and the aircraft was destroyed. Crew: Leslie T. Jackson, pilot, Archibald Francis Phillpot, radio operator. Passengers: Harold J. Pemberton, journalist for the Daily Express, Reginald Charles Wesley, photographer for the Daily Express.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-AEHC, MSN 7514, year of manufacture 1936.