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ALZ334
| Date: | 22 AUG 1927 |
| Time: | ca 08.15 |
| Type: | Fokker F.VIII |
| Operator: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
| Registration: | H-NADU |
| C/n / msn: | 4993 |
| First flight: | 1926 |
| Engines: | 2 Gnome-Rhône Jupiter |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | St. Julians, Sevenoaks, Kent (United Kingdom) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | London-Croydon Airport (-) (-/-), United Kingdom |
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Amsterdam-Schiphol Municipal Airport (AMS) (AMS/EHAM), Netherlands |
Narrative:
A Fokker F.VIII passenger plane was destroyed in an accident near Sevenoaks, Kent, United Kingdom. One crew member was killed.
Some ten minutes after takeoff from London-Croydon Airport the pilot noted vibrations which was suddenly followed by a sharp right hand turn. The airplane began to loose height quicky in a descending turn. The horizontal stabilizer was trimmed to arrest the descent rate.
The pilot was not able to control the airplane, which crashed into trees. Flight engineer J.L.A.M. Brunklaus (25) was killed.
It appeared that the vertical stabilizer had separated in flight.
Sources:
» aviacrash.nl
» hdekker.info
