ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 141440
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| Date: | Saturday 29 May 1943 |
| Time: | 11:45 |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle II |
| Owner/operator: | 305 FTU RAF |
| Registration: | P1503 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Fearnen, Perthshire, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Errol ICAO: X6EL |
| RAF Errol ICAO: X6EL |
The aircraft was on a training / sight seeing flight, from RAF Errol, prior to imminent delivery to Russia. It entered a shallow dive over Adreonaig, Loch Tay, Perthshire, but a sizeable nose down attitude developed, due to ballast weights sliding forward. Level flight could not be regained and it impacted the ground, adjacent to 'Clach-an-Tuirc', immediately to the north of the crofting village of Fearnan and exploded.
Killed : Maj A Gruzdin, 1st Lt A. Aleksejev, 1st Lt U. Dramin and Czechoslovakian cook/interpreter S/Sgt F. Drahoval. The Russians were cremated at Dundee Crematorim and S/Sgt Drahoval was buried at Murie Cemetery, Errol
Sources:
Eye Witness accounts / Reminiscence of Chief Civilian Witness to Board of Inquiry - 'Fall of A Red Star' (private monograph) 1993
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/854462/tragic-airmen-who-crashed-near-perthshire-village-during-second-world-war-to-be-remembered/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Jan-2012 09:17 | Uli Elch | Added |
| 13-Apr-2012 11:20 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 16-May-2015 08:48 | Anon. | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-May-2015 00:20 | Oezil 007 | Updated [Operator] |
| 23-Mar-2019 09:26 | gerard57 | Updated [Other fatalities, Source] |
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