About: 1949 Manchester BEA Douglas DC-3 accident     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatDisastersInGreaterManchester, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2F1949_Manchester_BEA_Douglas_DC-3_accident

The 1949 Manchester BEA Douglas DC-3 accident occurred when a twin-engined British European Airways Douglas DC-3 (registration: G-AHCY) crashed on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines near Oldham, Lancashire, after a flight from Belfast. The accident killed 24 of the passengers and crew on board. The aircraft had first flown in 1944, and was captained by F. W. Pinkerton, a former RAF serviceman who, as a sergeant, had been posted missing during World War II. The airline was government-owned.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • 1949 Manchester BEA Douglas DC-3 accident (en)
rdfs:comment
  • The 1949 Manchester BEA Douglas DC-3 accident occurred when a twin-engined British European Airways Douglas DC-3 (registration: G-AHCY) crashed on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines near Oldham, Lancashire, after a flight from Belfast. The accident killed 24 of the passengers and crew on board. The aircraft had first flown in 1944, and was captained by F. W. Pinkerton, a former RAF serviceman who, as a sergeant, had been posted missing during World War II. The airline was government-owned. (en)
name
geo:lat
geo:long
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_C-47A_G-AHCY_BEA_RWY_03.08.49_edited-2.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_Dakota_wreckage_of_undercarriage_-_geograph.org.uk_-_352460.jpg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
caption
  • The British European Airways Douglas Dakota involved in the crash, at Manchester Airport in August 1949. (en)
crew
date
fatalities
image size
injuries
operator
origin
passengers
site
  • Saddleworth Moor, Lancashire, England (en)
type
  • Controlled flight into terrain caused by navigational and pilot errors. (en)
georss:point
  • 53.52066666666666 -1.9788833333333333
destination
  • Manchester Airport, England (en)
aircraft type
occurrence type
  • Accident (en)
survivors
tail number
  • G-AHCY (en)
has abstract
  • The 1949 Manchester BEA Douglas DC-3 accident occurred when a twin-engined British European Airways Douglas DC-3 (registration: G-AHCY) crashed on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines near Oldham, Lancashire, after a flight from Belfast. The accident killed 24 of the passengers and crew on board. The aircraft had first flown in 1944, and was captained by F. W. Pinkerton, a former RAF serviceman who, as a sergeant, had been posted missing during World War II. The airline was government-owned. (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 55 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software