Alexandria – El Salloum – Valetta – Croydon

On December 21, 1939 at 01:00 PM, Alexandria – El Salloum – Valetta – Croydon experienced a crash involving Lockheed 14 Super Electra, operated by British Airways, with the event recorded near Libya All Libya.

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

11 people were known to be on board, 5 fatalities were recorded, 6 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 45.5%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 6, passenger fatalities: 3, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Less than one hour after his departure from El Salloum Airport, at the border between Egypt and Libya, the pilot sent a mayday message due to unknown technical problems. He was forced to ditch the aircraft off the Libyan coast. The crew of a ship was quickly on the scene and was able to rescue six occupants, among them the pilot, while five other occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-AFYU, MSN 1444, year of manufacture 1939.