ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 150559
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| Date: | Tuesday 12 August 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 53 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | R7057 |
| MSN: | 1424 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mynydd Pen-y-Cae, S of Cwmgrach, near Glynneath, Glamorgan, Wales -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Llandow, Glamorgan |
| RAF Llandow |
Spitfire R7057 was assigned to 53 OTU RAF Llandow on 23rd June 1941 or shortly thereafter.( On 3rd February 1941, R7057 was flown from Eastleigh to 6MU at Brize Norton, before delivery to 501 Squadron at RAF Colerne, where it served from 14th May to 23rd June prior to delivery to RAF Llandow.) While on exercise it flew into Mynydd Pen-y-Cae, South of Cwmgrach, near Glynneath in low cloud on 12/08/1941.
Aircraft impacted at 1,960 feet/597 metres above sea level.
Crew:
P/O (102080) Colin James Day (pilot) RAFVR - killed.
R.I.P.
Some sources state that Spitfire R7057 was a "presentation" aircraft, bought with public funds and subscriptions to War Bonds, and thus named "CAITHNESS" (see link #6). The impact site for this aircraft is rather small. Its close proximity to an active forestry track may explain this. Closer examination of the track showed numerous small fragments of melted alloy, spreading approximately 10 metres either side of the impact site. Small piles of wreckage had been collected and a shrine type structure constructed from stones is present.
Sources:
1. Doylerush, E, 2008, Rocks in the Clouds: High Ground Aircraft Crashes in South Wales, p.108.
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p010.html
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2421781/day,-colin-james/
4. http://www.ggat.org.uk/timeline/pdf/Military%20Aircraft%20Crash%20Sites%20in%20Southeast%20Wales.pdf
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/07578.php
6. http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?51272-The-Caithness-Spitfire&p=400713#post400713
7. https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/more-plane-wrecks-in-and-around-the-brecon-beacons-june-and-july-2018.113886/
8. Photo of crash site: https://www.alltravels.com/united-kingdom/wales/blaengwrach/photos/current-photo-3121739
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Nov-2012 23:02 | angels one five | Added |
| 16-Jul-2015 20:26 | Angel dick one | Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 17-May-2019 21:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Jan-2021 09:26 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Jul-2023 16:04 | Nepa | Updated [[Narrative]] |
| 23-Sep-2023 16:09 | Ron | Updated [[[Narrative]]] |
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