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Date: | Monday 17 December 1945 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Airspeed Oxford Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 667 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PH210 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Chinthurst Hill, Bramley, Surrey -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Dunsfold, Surrey |
Narrative:Airspeed Oxford Mk.I PH210, 667 Squadron, RAF; Written off (damaged beyond repair) 17 December 1945 in a wheels-up landing. Pilot said he was caught in a gale whilst low down and at the same time had lost all radio aid. He elected to belly land in a field of cabbages. No-one was hurt in the incident, and the squadron disbanded three days later.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.23. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. The Oxford Consul & Envoy File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 2001 p 190)
4.
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/667_wwII.html 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinthurst_Hill Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Sep-2013 22:06 |
JINX |
Added |
19-Jan-2016 20:10 |
Heil |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
06-Apr-2017 14:11 |
Bexhill lady |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
01-Nov-2019 22:45 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Nov-2019 22:51 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
02-Nov-2019 18:38 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |