ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 159985
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| Date: | Monday 15 October 1945 |
| Time: | 02:00 |
| Type: | Airspeed Oxford Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | Radio Met Flt RAF |
| Registration: | PH480 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Cardigan Bay, 30 miles west of Aberystwyth -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire |
| RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire |
Written off (destroyed) 15 October 1945 when crashed into Cardigan Bay, 30 miles west of Aberwrystyth.The crew left RAF Brawdy in the evening on an experimental night radar meteorological research flight. Aircraft was due to overfly a marker dropped into the sea, taking readings at 100 feet intervals up to 1,500 feet using a radar altimeter to ensure accuracy. At 02:00 LT, while descending to 200 feet, the aircraft struck the sea.
No distress call was made. Although a search was initiated at first light, and debris sighted by the crew of a Warwick search aircraft, no bodies or wreckage were recovered. Aircraft and crew were from the RAF Radar Meteorological Flight based at Defford, but detached to Brawdy for this particular sortie.
Crew of Oxford PH480:
Flight Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Cotter MiD (Pilot) RAF, Service Number 183805, aged 25
Flight Sergeant Arthur Edward Bedwell (Navigator) RAF Service Number 1392547
Warrant Officer Edward Moore,(Observer) Service Number 1698314, aged 21
All three crew were posted as "missing presumed killed on active service 15 October 1945" and all three are remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 2003 page 38)
2. http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/memorial/entry.php?id=164
3. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-airspeed-as10-oxford-i-aberystwyth-3-killed
4. http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/506981/details/airspeed-oxford-1-ph480
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?19667-451015-Unaccounted-Airwomen-amp-Airmen-15-10-1945&styleid=3
6. https://rotherhamwarmemorials.weebly.com/maltby-grammar-school.html
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1085040/cotter,-daniel-joseph/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1083675/bedwell,-arthur-edward/
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1077070/moore,-edward/
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Sep-2013 04:27 | JINX | Added |
| 24-Dec-2013 21:42 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Jun-2015 21:44 | Angel dick one | Updated [Time, Operator, Narrative] |
| 30-Jul-2017 22:32 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Jan-2018 08:19 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 25-Nov-2018 16:59 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 21-Oct-2019 16:58 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Oct-2019 17:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Nov-2019 18:48 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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