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RN Casualty in Chilean aircraft - 1 April 1933
On 1 April 1933 Supply Petty Officer William Johnson, Royal Navy, was killed in a flying accident in a Chilean military aircraft at/near Iquique.
He was serving on the light cruiser HMS Durban that paid a visit to that Chilean port between 30 March and 2 April 1933. Who has more about this accident? Type? How Johnson came to fly in a Chilean aircraft? Any info welcome, thanks. Regards, Leendert |
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Re: RN Casualty in Chilean aircraft - 1 April 1933
Thanks to a kind gentleman in Chile, I received the following (slightly edited):
Curtiss Falcon (FACh number 6) took off from Los Condores air base (Iquique city), in a demonstration flight with the FACh’s Curtiss Falcon number 10. Both planes (from the Grupo de Aviación N° 1, Iquique) made evolved maneuvers over the bay. The N° 6 ended the exercise, flew back to the airfield, took a a dive from 500 meters high and lost the lower left wing. Chilean officer and pilot Eduardo Arndt Brieva parachutes and survives, but the Englishman (= Petty Officer Johnson) was trapped in the machine. Regards, Leendert |
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