Chamberlain plane crash on way to Munich

Air transport in the 1930s was a lot less safe than it is now. I also heard that Chamberlain was the first UK Prime Minister to fly and that at a fairly old age.

Had there been a crash that killed him before arriving, probably on take off or landing what would have happened to the 1938 Sudeten crisis?

Would he be remembered as a great man because of the 'martyrdom'?
 
Which raises the question: who would be Chamberlain's replacement if he died in 1938 anyways? From what I've read his selection by Those Men was as an interim choice until shortly before or after the planned 1940 election. Resident Brits, please chime in. We know it's definitely not Eden or Churchill, probably not Halifax. Chamberlain didn't have a de facto deputy like he was for Baldwin or Eden was for Churchill.
 
Could very well be Halifax. National tragedy et al might convince him one could govern from the Lords (and there's always the possibility that the proposed emergency law that allowed him to speak in the Commons but not vote could be passed). Then again, the Second World War wasn't a big enough tragedy to convince him, so who knows?

Simon seems obvious but as a Nat Lib he'd never quite command the Tories in Parliament. Very unlikely, but not impossible.

One also shouldn't discount Samuel Hoare. He had returned to high office remarkably quickly after Hoare-Laval and had impeccable appeasement credentials. If Halifax won't take the job, Hoare might be a shoo-in, not least because he was Home Sec at the time.
 
It was a Tory government in all but name after '35, plus the party has to pick a new leader. After the Lloyd George experience, would any of them really be keen on allowing another Liberal to run the show?
 
It was a Tory government in all but name after '35, plus the party has to pick a new leader. After the Lloyd George experience, would any of them really be keen on allowing another Liberal to run the show?

Exactly. Ramsay Mac stayed on in 1931 because he was doing just that - staying on. Bringing in a Nat Lib is unlikely. Simon, however, was essentially a Tory by this stage of his career and so with butterflies could merge the Nat Libs with the Tories, but that all seems a lot of fuss. Having slept on it, I'm now more inclined towards Hoare.
 
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