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The Twelve Crashes of Christmas

22 min • 13 april 2023

 

The 12 days of Christmas are generally thought to run from the 26th of December to the 6th of January and is an important period of religious celebration or for those of us who observe Christmas in a more secular manner, it’s more likely to be a traditional time of recovery following our holiday excesses and to welcome in the New Year. Of course, those of us in the Aviation industry often remember dates by events that occurred on a particular day and the most memorable are often the most tragic.  With that in mind I present the 12 crashes of Christmas.

 

The TU144

 

Earthrise from Apollo 8

 

The Lockheed A-12 Oxcart

 

The C-130

 

The Avro Ten

 

The Vickers Wellington

 

The Handley Page O

 

The captured bomber

 

Gustav Hamel and Eleanor Trehawke Davies

 

Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man

 

The Flying Machine

 

The Convair 440 Metropolitan airliner

 

Amelia Mary Earhart

 

Earhart’s Electra

 

Amy Johnson

 

 

A Finnish Fokker

 

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Michel Gilliand, NASA, the USAF, State Library of Queensland, the RAF, US National Archives, the Rijksmuseum, Luc Viatour, SDASM,and those images within the Public Domain.

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