Felixstowe air accident
Raf Felixstowe Fury · The Felixstowe air accident occurred on 11 August 1919 near the town of the same name, located in south-east Britain
From Felixstowe RNAS to Felixstowe RNAS
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Military
Felixstowe Fury
- Aircraft type
- Felixstowe FURY
- 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
- N123
- Operator
- Raf
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Felixstowe RNASTo Felixstowe RNAS
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Felixstowe air accident occurred on 11 August 1919 near the town of the same name, located in south-east Britain.
The accident
The accident occurred on the morning of Monday 11 August 1919 at Felixstowe. The aircraft, which in those days was undergoing technical flight tests, was made to take off from the former Felixstowe airfield, called Felixstowe RNAS. The aircraft, during the first phase of the climb (ICL Inital Climb), suddenly began to descend immediately after take-off and within a few seconds crashed into the waters of the harbour. There were 7 crew members on board the aircraft: among them there was one fatality
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Italian Wikipedia article “Incidente aereo di Felixstowe” (revision 144379226, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Italian Wikipedia article: Incidente aereo di Felixstowe
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 144379226 · 2025-04-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q46993754
- 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
- it Wikipedia article "Incidente aereo di Felixstowe" (page 9798829, revision 144379226), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Italian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.