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During the night an organization was formed to conduct the search operation. After sunrise multiple Dutch airplanes, a Dutch [[torpedo boat]] and airplanes of the [[Royal Air Force]] searched the channel and the Dutch coast. Nieuwenhuis searched together with a photographer using the plane that was normally used for making photographs. Several sandbanks had run dry due to low water, but the aircraft, or parts of it, were not found. |
During the night an organization was formed to conduct the search operation. After sunrise multiple Dutch airplanes, a Dutch [[torpedo boat]] and airplanes of the [[Royal Air Force]] searched the channel and the Dutch coast. Nieuwenhuis searched together with a photographer using the plane that was normally used for making photographs. Several sandbanks had run dry due to low water, but the aircraft, or parts of it, were not found. |
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The next day seaplanes of the Dutch Royal Air Force went out again to search for the plane. Also Dutch seaplanes stationed in [[Veere]] searched but without a sign of the plane. |
The next day seaplanes of the Dutch Royal Air Force went out again to search for the plane. Also Dutch seaplanes stationed in [[Veere]] searched but without a sign of the plane. At the end of the search that day all hope was given up that the aircraft would be found. |
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A [[Telegram]] was received that a Dutch plane was found at a sandbank of [[Goodwin]]. |
A [[Telegram]] was received that a Dutch plane was found at a sandbank of [[Goodwin]]. |
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 Similar KLM owned Fokker F.III as the involved airplane | |
| Disappearence | |
|---|---|
| Date | 24 April 1924 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Fokker F.XXII |
| Operator | KLM |
| Registration | H-NABS |
| Flight origin | Lympne Airport, United Kingdom |
| Destination | Waalhaven, the Netherlands |
| Passengers | 2 |
| Crew | 1 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
On 24 April 1924 KLM operated Fokker F.III H-NABS was an international passenger flight from Lympne Airport, United Kingdom to Waalhaven the Netherlands. The plane with the pilot and two passengers on board disappeared while flying over the North Sea. After a large search the plane was not found. It is presumed the plane crashed into the sea.
Background
KLM became on 7 October 1919 one of the first commercial airline companies. KLM had strict safety measures and a strict policy for the selection of pilots. The KLM passed 2734 times the North Sea without problems between Rotterdam and Croydon and furthermore 3000 times between Belgium and the United Kingdom and 7000 times between Croydon and Paris. This accident was the first main accident of the company.[2]
Flight
On 24 April 1924 the Fokker F.III H-NABS was an KLM operated international passenger flight from Croydon Airport via Lympne Airport, United Kingdom to Waalhaven, the Netherlands. There were three people on board, pilot Pijl and two passengers. The plane departed at 10:43 from Croydon and departed after a stopover at Lympme Airport at 13:34. As there was no radio contact with airplanes at the time, it was noted something had happened after the plane didn’t arrive at the correct time at Waalhaven, by Nieuwenhuis who was in charge at Waalhaven airport.
Pilot and passengers
- The pilot was A. P. J. Pijl (born 22 November 1895 in Amersfoort). As a militairy aviator he had flown 750 hours before he started working at KLM on 1 April 1922. As KLM pilot he had made another 1220 flight hours. He had already flown 215 times over the North Sea.
- Passenger W. J. van Hien. He was the son of W. H. J. van Hien, the acting director at the time of Dutch state taxes in Amsterdam. He was married and lived in Folkestone. He was en route to Amsterdam for businesses.
- Passenger C. Modderman (around 40-years old). He was engineer, working on architecture and lived in Amersfoort. He went multiple time to London for business and it wasn’t his first time he did it by airplane. He originally planned to return after this business trip by boat. He was married and had one child.
Search operation
After H. Nieuwenhuis had notice something had happened, all available possibilities were used by the KLM to find the plane in the days after the disappeareance.
All aviation centers along the entire Belgian coast; the north of France and south east coast of the United Kingdom were contacted over the radio. Telephone services and telegraph services were used in attempt to gain more information about the plane. Head of the radio service J. Strijkers worked all evening and night continuously to gather information.
The Canal patrol boats, lightships and coastguards were asked to look out for the airplane.
During the night an organization was formed to conduct the search operation. After sunrise multiple Dutch airplanes, a Dutch torpedo boat and airplanes of the Royal Air Force searched the channel and the Dutch coast. Nieuwenhuis searched together with a photographer using the plane that was normally used for making photographs. Several sandbanks had run dry due to low water, but the aircraft, or parts of it, were not found.
The next day seaplanes of the Dutch Royal Air Force went out again to search for the plane. Also Dutch seaplanes stationed in Veere searched but without a sign of the plane. At the end of the search that day all hope was given up that the aircraft would be found.
A Telegram was received that a Dutch plane was found at a sandbank of Goodwin.
Reactions
References
- ^ "Het vermiste vliegtuig. De nasporing vruchteloos". De Avondpost (in Dutch). 26 April 1924 – via Delpher.
- ^ "De vermiste vliegmachine | Nog geen spoor van de Fokker ontdekt | Het onderzoek schitterend geleid". Voorwaarts (in Dutch). 26 April 1924 – via Delpher.
- ^ "24.04.1924 H-NABS Fokker F.III 1535 Het Kanaal". hdekker.info (in Dutch).