Uiver - Rampvlucht - Ramppost uit de laatste vlucht met de Uiver - 1934

Envelope without letter from the last flight of the Uiver

Front:
Postage stamp: PER LUCHTPOST / PAR AVION / 37AA 61230
Postage stamp: NEDERLAND 6 / VOOR HET KIND (with cancel)
Postage stamp: LUCHTPOSTZEGEL [post horn] VOOR BIJZONDERE VLUCHTEN - 30 NEDERLAND Ct (with cancel)

ADDRESS IN THE NETHERLANDS
TO ______________________
___________________________
___________________________

Stamped: Amsterdam Batavia / De Uiver / 19 December 1934

PER K.L.M. AIRCRAFT "UIVER"

Space for Indonesian stamp

ADDRESS IN INDONESIA
TO His Excellency Sir/Madam
B. ter Braake - Meyer
Goensverlaan 12
Bandung
Java

Back:

Recipient: M. C. Meyer
Boschweg 16
Apeldoorn
Holland

Stamped: Bandung / 28.12.34.17.

Reference: KLM - De Uiver last flight
Quality: Rescued from fire

Extra info
On 20 December 1934, a month after returning from Australia, the Uiver was on its way to Batavia for the second time. It was an extra flight for Christmas, and there was a lot of publicity, so 350 kg of Christmas mail was aboard. After a stopover in Cairo, the captain Willem Beekman, who had been with KLM since 1924 and had extensive experience on the India route, did not want to depart due to bad weather. KLM director Albert Plesman had threatened to dismiss him if this prestigious flight was delayed, because it would be a tremendous embarrassment if the famous Uiver arrived in the colony after the holidays with all the Christmas mail.

So the Uiver departed anyway, but it never reached Baghdad, the next stop. Owing to bad weather, it crashed near Ar-Rutbah (Rutbah Wells) in the Iraqi portion of the Syrian Desert. All seven occupants perished. The fire destroyed 145 kilograms of Christmas mail; the remaining 205 kilograms were severely damaged by fire and/or water damage and were eventually delivered in Batavia on 28 December 1934, provided with a special PTT tracking strip about the air crash.

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