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1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash
The 1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash was the fatal accident involving the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy II aeroplane ''City of Liverpool'', flown by British airline Imperial Airways. The aircraft crashed near Diksmuide (Dixmude), northern Belgium on 28 March 1933 after an onboard fire; all fifteen aboard were killed, making it the deadliest accident in the history of British civil aviation to that time. It has been suggested that this was the first airliner ever lost to sabotage, and in the immediate aftermath suspicion centred on one passenger, Dr. Albert Voss, who seemingly jumped from the aircraft before it crashed.
==Accident==
The aircraft was employed on Imperial's regular London-Brussels-Cologne route, which it had flown for the previous five years.〔Barker (1988) p. 56〕 On this leg of the journey the plane was travelling from Brussels to London, which route would take it north from Brussels heading over Flanders before crossing the coast for the flight across the English Channel and then making the brief traverse over the Kent countryside to land at Croydon Airport in Surrey, a journey that was estimated to take two hours from the aircraft's slightly delayed take-off just after 12:30 pm.〔Barker (1988) p. 57〕
While flying over the fields of northern Belgium, the aircraft was seen by onlookers on the ground to catch fire before losing altitude and plunging into the ground.〔Barker (1988) p. 58〕 As the aircraft began its descent, a passenger was seen to exit the aeroplane and fall to earth without a parachute. He was later identified as Dr Albert Voss, a German who had emigrated to the United Kingdom where he practised as a dentist in Manchester.〔〔Barker (1988) p. 55〕 Just before crashing, at approximately , the aircraft split into two sections which hit the ground separately, instantly killing all those still on board.〔Barker (1988) pp. 59–60〕
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