Northwood mid-air collision

Quando

4 de jul. de 1948

Tipo

Desastre aéreo

Coordenadas

51.60° N, 0.45° W

Description

mid-air collision

Mid air collision over UK

The 1948 Northwood mid-air collision took place on 4 July at 15:03 when a Douglas DC-6 of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and an Avro York C.1 of the Royal Air Force (RAF) collided in mid-air over Northwood in London, UK. All thirty-nine people aboard both aircraft were killed. It was SAS's first fatal aviation accident and was at the time the deadliest civilian aviation accident in the UK.

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