• Short Summary

    Stafford Cripps arrives back in London - A Dakota airliner crashes on the moors near Oldham.

  • Description

    Full title reads: "London - Oldham. News From The Air".

    Northolt Airport, Near London.

    SV Cripps 'plane taxiing in at Northolt. CU Name of 'plane 'Verity'.

    SV Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps out of 'plane and poses on steps. CU Cripps smiling.

    Intertitle reads: "Greenfield, Nr Oldham.". Lancashire.

    GV Mist over hills pan to wreck of airliner.

    SV Wreckage of crashed Dakota where 24 people died.

    LV Wreckage of craft strewn about hills.

    CU Pan of Wreckage. CU Child's comic. LV Small belongings, strewn about.

    SV Wrecked engine of craft. CU Equipment.

    GV Hills and Valley.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1421.28
    Media URN:
    46313
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    25/08/1949
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:50:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:41:27:00 / 01:42:17:00
    Canister:
    49/68

Comments (1)

  1. jamied says

    SV Cripps 'plane taxiing in at Northolt" - the aircraft is a Vickers 610 Viking, Reg. No. G-AHPS.

    The air crash reported in the second half of this clip occurred on 19 August 1949.

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