Lioré-et-Olivier LeO H-213

Air France

The crew departed Croydon Airport on an early mail/cargo flight to Paris-Le Bourget. After takeoff shortly after 5am, while climbing in reduced visibility due to mist, the airplane collided with the mast of an antenna, stalled and crashed in the garden of a house located in Wallington. The aircraft was destroyed and both crew members were killed. Crew: Raymond Defives, pilot, Edouard L'Huillier, radio navigator.

Air France

The crew departed Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 0840LT on a mail flight to Croydon. Twenty minutes later, while cruising at an altitude of 1,000 metres, the left engine caught fire. The crew decided to bail out and abandoned the aircraft that impacted an electricity pole and the roof of a factory before crashing in an affluent of the Avelon River, bursting into flames. Both pilots were uninjured while the aircraft was destroyed. All mail, more than one ton, was also destroyed.

Air Union France

En route from Paris to Croydon, the aircraft caught fire in flight. The pilot reduced his altitude and attempted an emergency landing in an open field. The aircraft rolled for few dozen metres before coming to rest, bursting into flames. All six occupants evacuated safely and the airplane was destroyed by fire.

Air Union France

The crew departed Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 0525LT bound for London. On approach to Croydon Airport, the crew encountered poor visibility due to foggy conditions. The pilot reduced his altitude to establish a visual contact with the ground when the airplane impacted a tree and crashed in the parking lot of an Hotel located in Selsdon Park, Surrey. The copilot was seriously injured and the captain Gustave Demeuldre was killed.