Brooklands - Brooklands

On April 13, 1922 at 12:00 AM, Brooklands - Brooklands experienced a crash involving Vickers Viking (Serie I/II/III & IV), operated by Ross MacPherson Smith, with the event recorded near Brooklands (Weybridge) Surrey.

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

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

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was performing a local test flight at Brooklands Airport. While flying at an altitude of about 1,000 feet, the aircraft entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed near the aerodrome, killing both occupants, the British aviator Jim Mallett Bennett and Ross McPherson Smith who completed the first flight from England to Australia in 1919.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-EBBZ, MSN 15, year of manufacture 1922.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 51.3629°, -0.4648°.