Date:	Tuesday 21 October 1941
Time:	night
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Owner/operator:	125 (Newfoundland) Sqn RAF
Registration:	T4104
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF Fairwood Common, Gower Peninsula, Glamorganshire, Wales -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Fairwood Common, Glamorganshire

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Defiant T4104, 125 (Newfoundland) Squadron RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when hit a Chance Light in turn on approach to flare path at night and crashed at RAF Fairwood Common, near Swansea, 21 October 1941. Both crew survived, albeit with injuries.

Crew:
Sgt G.W WALTERS (pilot) RAFVR - injured
Lt. CARRUTHERS (passenger) Royal Artillery - injured

1. Royal Air Force Arcraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley Air Britain 1977 p 20)
2. ORB 125 Squadron RAF for June to September 1941: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/922/3: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8387463
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/9773: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16998020
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=T4104
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_Wales_and_West_Midlands.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._125_Squadron_RAF#Second_World_War
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fairwood_Common

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Oct-2013 07:10	Nepa	Added
11-Nov-2014 14:16	Ivan Lother	Updated [Location, Narrative]
11-Nov-2014 14:18	Oezil	Updated [Narrative]
05-Jun-2015 18:30	Earl	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Aug-2020 08:18	Oezil	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
20-Jul-2021 20:29	Anon.	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]
21-Apr-2022 21:07	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]