The Picardie Mid-Air Collision Aviation’s First Airliner Disaster (April 7, 1922)
On April 7, 1922, aviation history was marked by tragedy when two early airliners—a British **de Havilland DH.18A** (G-EAWO) and a French **Farman F.60 Goliath** (F-GEAD)—collided mid-air over **Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, Picardie, France**, killing all seven people aboard. This unprecedented disaster, occurring just four days after Daimler Hire Ltd. launched its Croydon-Paris mail service, exposed the lethal risks of unregulated skies in the post-WWI aviation boom .#AviationHistory #FirstMidAirCollision #Picardie1922 #FarmanGoliath #DeHavillandDH18 #AviationSafety #HistoricDisasters #GoldenAgeOfFlight #ForgottenTragedies #AviationsTurningPoint
