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Date: | Monday 21 April 1941 |
Time: | 01:00 |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 10 OTU RAF |
Registration: | N1411 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 mile WSW of RAF Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Stanton Harcourt |
Destination airport: | RAF Stanton Harcourt |
Narrative:During the night of 20-21 April 1941, the Whitley V N1411 of 10 OTU RAF took off from Stanton Harcourt for night circuit training. It bounced on landing circa 0100 hrs and while trying to go around, the pilot lost control and the bomber crashed about a mile WSW of the airfield. The pilot,
Plt Off L S Davies, and another crew, Sgt H J Burton, were injured while the third crew, Sgt P G Brothers, was unhurt.
Sources:
"Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses, volume 7: Operational Training Units 1940-1947", by W R Chorley, ISBN 1-85780-132-6, page 48
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16755282 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Stanton_Harcourt http://wikimapia.org/#lang=fr&lat=51.741944&lon=-1.409167&z=13&m=w Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Aug-2008 23:23 |
Anon. |
Added |
30-Dec-2011 15:33 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
22-Apr-2020 10:10 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |