Carlton crash
Royal Air Force Handley Page Halifax and German Air Force Messerschmitt Bf 110 · Bomber shot down
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
- 16 · all aircraft and ground
- 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
- Military
Aircraft 1 · Handley Page Halifax
- Aircraft type
- Handley PAGE HALIFAX
- 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
- DG423
- Operator
- Royal Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From RAF Linton-on-OuseTo Duisburg
Aircraft 2 · Messerschmitt Bf 110
- Aircraft type
- Messerschmitt BF-110
- 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
- German Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Bergen AirfieldTo not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Carlton crash was an air disaster that took place in Amsterdam in the night of 26 to 27 April 1943, during the Second World War. An HP Halifax of the British air force, shortly after having been hit by a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighter, crashed at 02:34 near the Carlton Hotel, destroying a row of buildings on the Reguliersdwarsstraat and the Singel, including the hotel building, which at that time housed a branch of the German Luftwaffe. The seven crew members of the aircraft were all killed; on the ground there were six civilian deaths and three German military casualties. The fire that broke out after the crash is regarded as one of the largest city fires in Amsterdam; a complete block between the Singel and the Reguliersdwarsstraat was reduced to ashes.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Dutch Wikipedia article “Carlton-crash” (revision 71049031, 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
Dutch Wikipedia article: Carlton-crash
- Article
- Carlton-crash
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 71049031 · 2026-04-27 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q125895968
- 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
- nl Wikipedia article "Carlton-crash" (page 5857376, revision 71049031), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Dutch Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.