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Henry Ching writes:

CNAC plane XT-104 crashed on Basalt Island on 21st December, 1948. 

David Pickerell investigated this in the mid-2000s, and has written up a good report:

http://www.cnac.org/sundby03.pdf

Thanks to IDJ for the pointer to this.

23 passengers and crew were killed when the plane crashed after hitting the wall of the Braemar Reservoir.

There is more information in this thread: http://gwulo.com/atom/15674

A Skymaster operated by POAS [Pacific Overseas Airways (Siam) Ltd] crashed at Mount Parker on 11th March 1950. All 18 passengers and 8 crew members were killed.

Newspaper clippings from IDJ:

IDJ adds this one, noted in the Civil Aviation Department Annual Report:

The Civil aircraft concerned was a DC-3 of Siamese Airways which on the 9th April, 1951 crashed into the sea, a mile or so east of Cape D'Aguilar. Sixteen persons were killed ...

IDJ found a later reference to it in Peter Moss's book "No Babylon". Moss describes an outing on a trawler from Aberdeen, that pulls up what he believes to be a DC3's landing gear in its nets.

Over 60 years ago, Gordon Randall made the headlines:

Here's how he remembers the day's events:

All of the crew & passengers on board survived, despite the plane bursting into flames.

I recently heard a story about a privately owned Spitfire crashing into Sai Kung's Port Shelter some time in the 1950's. Do any of the old timers (or historically minded new timers) have any recollection of any stories related to this - or is it just an urban rumour?

There's a good writeup at:

http://www.chingchic.com/captain-courageous.html

Photo and backround here:

http://gwulo.com/node/6325

This was held on reclaimed ground in Kowloon. Ground is reclaimed from the sea, simply by pushing in scrap earth until the pile is high enough to rise above the water.

The Circus was held in a tent as at home. The seats were merely wooden benches. However for an extra 10c. you could have a bamboo mat.

Most of the audience were Chinese, who had brought their children along.

SEK KON. (The New Territories.) Nov 11th

A train from Kowloon runs right up to Fanling near the border.

By train you can travel 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class. We went 2nd class. It was very clean & freshly painted. The windows let down very low to give you a clear unrestricted view. The 1st class is very similar to our 1st class in England. All the time there is a vendor for English sweets walking up and down as well as some one selling fruit. 

The colony launch takes visitors free to the Colony every Saturday, leaving Queen's Pier at 2 p.m.

Today Marion and I have been riding bicycles round the New Territories. We caught the bus to Fanling - the last village before the frontier. There were queues of people all going to the country to see their relations for Chinese New Year. At Shatin we saw a fleeting part of a Lion Dance - traditionally performed at this time. One person wears a very elaborate and brightly coloured mask representing a lion. He dances around accompanied by the banging of gongs and drums with a peculiar tinny sound. Often, this is followed by displays of shadow boxing.

This is the report of a successful crash-landing after mechanical failure. Two weeks later the same pilot had a fatal crash at Lion Rock Ridge (see http://gwulo.com/node/20835)