Date:	Sunday 29 March 1942
Time:	12:30
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk II
Owner/operator:	151 Sqn RAF
Registration:	AA384
MSN:	735
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1 mile north of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Defiant AA384: Written off (destroyed) 29 March 1942 when crashed and caught fire at 12:30 hrs, after the pilot stalled the aircraft at low altitude in a steep turn during a session of unauthorized low flying in a flight training session. Aircraft came down one mile north of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. Both crew killed.
Crew of Defiant AA384:
P/O (115.127) Herbert Wyndham HART (Pilot) RAFVR : killed
Sgt (917338) Aldridge James SNOOK (AG) RAFVR : killed

Both crew were buried at All Saints Churchyard, Wittering, Northamptonshire.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft AA100-AZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain (2nd Edition) 2000 p.6)
2. 151 Squadron ORB for March 1942: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/1020/6: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8389545
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/13037: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17083787
4. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2949717/herbert-wyndham-hart/
5. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2949735/aldridge-james-snook/
6. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?p=90972
7. https://www.bcar.org.uk/new1942-incident-logs#mar
8. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=AA384
9. https://www.chwarmemorial.org.uk/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=96&TableName=ta_ww2rollofhonour&BrowseID=1180
10. Grave marker of Sgt A J Snook: https://www.flickr.com/photos/188806011@N04/52222451964/
11. http://www.rafweb.org/Members%20Pages/Casualties/1940s/1942/Casualties_1942_03-9.htm
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._151_Squadron_RAF#World_War_II
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Wittering#Second_World_War
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford,_Lincolnshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Feb-2008 12:59	JINX	Added
07-Sep-2011 15:18	angels one five	Updated [Time, Nature, Source, Narrative]
04-Feb-2012 09:02	Nepa	Updated [Time, Operator, Narrative]
13-Sep-2013 08:21	angels one five	Updated [Time, Operator, Narrative]
20-Sep-2014 08:00	Faun	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Narrative]
04-Oct-2018 13:05	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
06-Sep-2020 07:37	Angel Dick one	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]
22-Mar-2022 15:07	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative]