Croydon Air Crash (1938)

Soundtrack is currently missing for this item. Croydon, London. Various shots of the scene of the crash of a small private de Havilland Dragon aeroplane near Croydon (London) Airport. It flew into telegraph wires and came down on a railway embankment. A man works to fix the wires and several people stand around the cordoned-off remains of the plane. Paperwork says the pilot and two passengers survived but were in hospital. Note: The crash occurred on 26 February 1938. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content