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Date: | Tuesday 18 October 1938 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Vickers Wellesley Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 148 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K7716 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Dunmow Park, Great Dunmow, Essex -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Stradishall, Newmarket, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Vickers Wellesley Mk.I K7716, 148 Squadron, RAF Stradishall, Newmarket, Suffolk: Written off (destroyed) 18/10/38 in a "head on" mid-air collision with Wellseley K7714 (also of 148 Squadron, RAF), over Great Dunmow, Essex. All three crew of Wellseley K7716 were killed:
Sgt Reginald Prosser (aged 24) killed
Sgt Wilfred Courtney Cunnington (aged 29) killed
Act Sgt James Crane Irwin (aged 31) killed
All three crew of the other Wellseley (K7714) were also killed.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 63)
2.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm 3.
https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/313304-airfield.html#post3908499 4.
http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/Chronicle/1900-1945.htm 5. Burnt out wreckage:
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/gutted-vickers-wellesley-bomber-framework-two-raf-vickers-news-photo/3351595#19th-october-1938-gutted-vickers-wellesley-bomber-framework-two-raf-picture-id3351595 6.
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/mid-louth-independent/20160907/281599534944520# 7.
http://www.putpic.com/image/3961/8826432 Media:
Vickers Wellseley Mk.I K7716, when with 76 Squadron, RAF Finningley, Yorkshire in April 1937
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Mar-2018 19:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
19-Mar-2018 20:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |