By: wieesso - 3rd March 2011 at 13:00
was this the one that took the life of Jim Broadbent former Aquilla airlines pilot?
By: T-21 - 3rd March 2011 at 04:46
Thanks to both Wiesso and Flyer for the info. The aircraft looks to be in Natural Metal with white top decking and black logo and fin stripe.
By: wieesso - 2nd March 2011 at 23:50
With a pic of either THA or THB on page 7
http://www.pooleflyingboats.com/archive/A%20Compelling%20Swansong%20Aquila,%20Artop%20and%20TEAL.pdf
…same here (better quality)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9utjHU8Hj2Q/TScvSh5K9uI/AAAAAAAACp8/hsaxrkG83C4/s1600/artop1.jpg
…and the THB accident report (Portuguese and English)
http://www.gpiaa.gov.pt/tempfiles/20101122151044moptc.pdf
By: Flyer - 2nd March 2011 at 17:43
Dear T-21 !
Here is preview of book “The fighting flying boat: a history of the Martin PBM Mariner”. You can’t see all photos from this book there, but You can read some text about Portuguese Mariners CS-THA and CS-THB (except some pages), and even see the photo of their interior ! Look through Chapter Eight “Commercial Mariners” (p. 152 – 171).
I think, the pages not shown (p. 161 – 164, 168) could to contain one or several images of Portuguese PBMs. You can try to buy this book somewhere…
By: T-21 - 2nd March 2011 at 16:15
Thanks for the replies on this little known use of Mariners into 1958. I thought the accident was caused by the starboard propellor going into reverse pitch .
By: Tango Charlie - 2nd March 2011 at 09:44
Mariner
was this the one that took the life of Jim Broadbent former Aquilla airlines pilot?
The Mariner had internal petrol heaters and from what i have read these were the likely cause of the crash. Like many other aviation incidents over water nothing was ever found despite an extensive search strange how an aircraft can completely disappear.
By: Newforest - 2nd March 2011 at 09:39
Accident report for those interested, no photo yet. 😉
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19581109-0
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