ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202383
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| Date: | Friday 5 January 1934 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.60G Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Miss Evelyn Frost |
| Registration: | G-ABDV |
| MSN: | 1291 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Nevers, Nièvre department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region -
 France
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Woodley, Reading, Berkshire |
| Almaza Airfield, Almaza, north east of Cairo |
DH.60G [Gipsy I] registered as G-ABDV [C of R 2773] 1.8.30 to Miss Amy Johnson, Hull, [based Stag Lane, Edgware, Middlesex] (and formally presented by Sir Sefton Brancker on behalf of readers of Daily Sketch and Sunday Graphic in Hyde Park 16.8.30; then named "Johnnie" and initially displayed in Selfridges Department Store, Oxford Street, London].
C of A 2686 issued 18.9.30. Renamed "Jason III"; Miss Johnson departed Stag Lane 1.1.31 en-route Peking, via Warsaw and Siberia. Damaged in forced landing near Amelin, 55 miles North of Warsaw, Poland 4.1.31 and flight abandoned. Repaired in Warsaw and flown back to London, departing 18.1.31.
Sold and re-registered [C of R 3872] 21.7.32 to Phillips & Powis Aircraft (Reading) Ltd, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire. Sold and delivered 6.8.32 (but not re-registered) to Miss Evelyn Frost, Paris/Orly (an American national).
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5.1.34 when forced landed in bad weather, struck HT cable pylon and destroyed by fire near Nevers, Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France. Aircraft was en-route between Woodley and Cairo; Miss Frost (as a passenger, aged 30) was killed and pilot Geoffrey Benskin Ruddle injured.
As per the headline in the New York Times (6 January 1934- see link #1):
"AMERICAN WOMAN DIES IN AIR CRASH
Miss Evelyn G. Frost, St. Louis, Is Burned to Death as Her Plane Hits Wire in France.
PILOT SCRAMBLES CLEAR
English Airman Escapes with Minor Injuries - Two Were on Way to Egypt".
Another newspaper (Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1934, Page 7 - see link #2) has more information:
"WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH
TRAPPED IN FALLEN PLANE CRASH IN A FORCED LANDING
HIGH TENSION WIRE STRUCK AMERICAN TOURING EUROPE
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Paris, Jan. 5.
An American airwoman, Miss Evelyn Frost, touring Europe by air, was unable to escape, despite her desperate struggles, and was burned to death when her Moth plane, piloted by an Englishman, Mr. Geoffrey Ruddle, struck a high-tension wire during a forced landing in fog at Nevers. The plane crashed to the ground and caught fire. Mr. Ruddle was able to unfasten his safety belt and was not seriously injured. Mr. Ruddle, interviewed in hospital, said he was looking for a landing place when the crash occurred. The next thing he remembered was lying on the ground. Flames were enveloping the machine, and he was burned in endeavouring to extricate Miss Frost. Miss Frost is a relative of the former American Ambassador to London".
According to the New York Times (8 January 1934 - see link #3) Miss Frost was buried in France, quote:
"MASS HERE TODAY FOR EVELYN FROST
Service at St. Vincent Ferrer Church to Be Synchronous with Funeral in France.
A requiem mass will be said this morning at 9 o'clock in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, Lexington Avenue at Sixty-sixth Street, for Miss Evelyn Frost, who was killed in an airplane accident at Nevers, France, on Friday. The mass will be as nearly as possible coincident with the funeral at Nevers, allowing for the difference in time between the two countries"
Registration G-ABDV cancelled December 1934 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawal from use of aircraft"
Sources:
1. New York Times 6 January 1934: https://www.nytimes.com/1934/01/06/archives/american-woman-dies-in-air-crash-miss-evelyn-g-frost-st-louis-is.html
2. Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1934, Page 7: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19340108.2.89
3. New York Times 8 January 1934: https://www.nytimes.com/1934/01/08/archives/mass-here-today-for-evelyn-frost-service-at-st-vincent-ferrer.html
4. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh60.pdf
5. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/76-register-gb-g-ab
6. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ABDV.pdf
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A2.htmll
8. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Accb1934.htm
9. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p012.html
10. http://www.triple-mregister.org/forums/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=10921
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevers
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Nov-2017 22:24 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 30-Nov-2017 22:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 10-Nov-2023 17:39 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Nov-2023 08:13 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative, Category] |
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