Vickers Viking (Serie I/II/III & IV)

F. L. Clarke

The seaplane caught fire in flight for unknown reasons. The pilot apparently attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed in the Fraser River, bursting into flames. The occupant's fate remains unknown.

Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF

The crew departed Winnipegosis on a topographic mission over the area of Hilbre, north of Winnipeg. While flying in stormy weather at an altitude of 3,500 feet, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in a prairie. All three occupants were killed.

Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force - ML-KNIL

Shortly after takeoff, the airplane crashed in the Batavia harbor off Tanjung Priok. The pilot was rescued and the aircraft was lost.

Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force - ML-KNIL

On final approach to Kalijati Airfield, the seaplane impacted a tree and crashed. A crew member was killed and the second was injured.

Ross MacPherson Smith

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.

Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd

The British aviator John William Alcock departed Brooklands (Weybridge) that day to Paris-Le Bourget to take part to the first airplane exhibition in Europe after the WWI. While overflying Seine-Maritime, the pilot lost control of the seaplane that crashed in Cottévrard, some 20 km north of Rouen. The pilot was seriously injured (skull fracture) and died few hours later. He performed the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland last 15JUN1919 with Arthur Whitten Brown. He was aged 27.