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A team with a Blackburn Kangaroo ( G-EAOW ) had selected as navigator the Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith.
Smith withdrew from the contest, and Captain Hubert Wilkins MC and bar took his place.
On 21 November 1919, the Kangaroo took off from Hounslow Heath, piloted by Lieutenant V. Rendle with Captain Wilkins, Lieutenant D. R.
Williams and Lieutenant Garnsey St. C. Potts as crew.
Problems were experienced with the engines, and the plane was forced down over France.
Repairs were made and the flight continued, still with engine problems.
On 8 December 1919, the aircraft crash-landed at Suda Bay, Crete, ending up against the fence of a mental hospital.
The crew escaped without injury.
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