1919 Verona Caproni Ca.48 crash
Caproni Ca.48 · Possible structural failure
From Venice, Italy to Taliedo, Milan, Italy
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
Caproni Ca.48
- Aircraft type
- Caproni CA-48
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Caproni
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Venice, ItalyTo Taliedo, Milan, Italy
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On August 2, 1919, a Caproni Ca.48 airliner crashed at Verona, Italy. All aboard died, with various sources placing the death toll at 14, 15, 16, and 17. It was Italy‘s first commercial aviation disaster and the earliest heavier-than-air airliner disaster in history.
Flight history
The Caproni Ca.48, owned and operated by the Caproni company and flown by two Italian military pilots, took off from the company's home airfield at Taliedo, a district of Milan, Italy, on Saturday, August 2, 1919, at 7:30 a.m. local time for a flight to Venice, where it arrived without incident at 9:22 a.m. After spending the day at Venice, the aircraft took off at 5:00 p.m. for the return flight to Taliedo.
Eyewitnesses reported that as the airliner passed near the airfield at Verona at an altitude of 3000 ft, its wings seemed first to flutter and then to collapse entirely. Several of the people on board jumped from the aircraft to their deaths before it crashed. There were no survivors. Wreckage of the airliner was found scattered over an area with a radius of over 400 m.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1919 Verona Caproni Ca.48 crash
- Revision
- 1336105722 · 2026-02-01 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q10356047
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1919 Verona Caproni Ca.48 crash" (page 34754800, revision 1336105722)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.