R101 lengthening the ship by to add another gasbag, the R101 crashed in France during its maiden overseas voyage on 5 October 1930, killing 48 of the 54 people on board. Among the passengers killed were Lord Thomson, the Air Minister who had initiated the programme, senior government officials, and almost all the dirigible's designers from the Royal Airship Works. The crash of R101 effectively ended British airship development, and was one of the worst airship accidents of the 1930s. The loss of life was more than the 36 killed in the highly public "Hindenburg" disaster of 1937, though fewer than
R101 (South Africa) to Polokwane (60 Km) while being on its eastern side. As there is a new Eastern Bypass of Polokwane given to the N1, the old road through Polokwane Central (Thabo Mbeki Street and Grobler Street), meeting the R37, Bypassing Polokwane International Airport (Landdros Mare Street), has been given to the R101. The point where Landdros Mare Street and the Polokwane Eastern Bypass meet north of Polokwane marks the end of the R101, as the road heading north to Beit Bridge, Zimbabwe is given back to the N1. R101 (South Africa) The R101 is a regional road in South Africa that