Timeline Sunday 5 October 1930

Sunday 5 October 1930

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Events on Sunday 5 October 1930 1

1930 R101 airship disaster British airship crashes in France on its first overseas flight The British airship R101 crashed and burned near Beauvais, France, on its way to India. Forty-eight of the 54 people on board died, including the Air Minister, Lord Thomson. The disaster ended Britain's programme of rigid airships.