Air Mail Plane Crash (1920)

London. Intertitle: “AIR MAIL DISASTER. Giant Handley-Page crashes at Golders Green“. Panning shot of the mangled wreckage of the plane, it appears to have crash landed in the back garden of a row of houses, a group of people mill about the wreck. C/U of the burnt out engine. M/S of the back of a house, semi-demolished by the crash. Amendment February 2012: A visitor to the website has provided the date for this material: 14th December 1920. The plane was a Handley Page O/400, registration number G-EAMA. 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 (1934-1
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