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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2227

(x) South Africa
1939 (15 Mar.) "Corsair" Crash
1939 envelope from Johannesburg to Paraguay bearing 1/- (3, another floated off) with machine datestamp, forced down at Dangu, Sudan and showing "accident d'avion/Correspondances recùeillies en Mer/ne par taxer" handstamp and showing, on reverse, a further strike of the French crash cachet and Ascunsion datestamp (1.4). A most unusual destination for mail from this crash. Nierinck 390315b

Note: The seaplane under Capt. Rogers left Durban on 12 march. Over Belgian Congo the flight was forced off course by bad weather. On 15 March Capt. Rogers was able to land the aircraft on the River Dangu where it smashed hole in it's hull causing it to sink in shallow water. The mail was recovered and carried onwards by sister flying boat "Centurion". The "Corsair" was refloated in January 1940 with Capt. Rogers able to fly it out

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