ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 154121
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Date: | Thursday 29 March 1945 |
Time: | c. 1455 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 40 ORTU RAF |
Registration: | PW391 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Knarr Cross Farm, nr Thorney Toll, Peterborough -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | RAF Matching, Essex |
Destination airport: | RAF Matching, Essex |
Narrative:A Stirling of an Operational and Refresher Training Unit collided with a Miles Master trainer during a test flight being carried out to check the aircraft's radio gear and crashed in flames.
All seven occupants ( 6 crew and 1 passenger ) died in the accident.
The pilot of the Master was killed too.
R.I.P.
Sources:
http://www.wartime-airfields.com/matching-airfield-the-human-element.html RAF Casualties-1945.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Mar-2013 19:56 |
angels one five |
Added |
16-Sep-2013 09:16 |
angels one five |
Updated [Narrative] |
27-Dec-2018 21:58 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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