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« on: March 30, 2012, 11:06:00 AM »

19/5/1929
A French cargo aircraft left Croydon for Paris at 1645, returning empty with just a pilot & mechanic. Flying over Paddock Wood the Pilot smelt smoke and realised the cockpit was warming up. The exhaust maniflod had set the fabric alight on the fuselage. He attempted to land on the Key Lands Railway siding at PW, about 10 yards from the signal box, the aircraft burst into flame & burned out. The pilot had burns to his right hand and the mechanic had a cut on his forehead
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On 19 May 1929, Farman F60 Goliath F-GEAI of Air Union, on a flight from Croydon to Paris crashed at Keylands Sidings near Paddock Wood railway station, it stopped yards from the signal box and was destroyed by fire, the pilot and mechanic escaped with minor injuries.
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