Date:	Monday 30 January 1939
Time:	day
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk IV
Owner/operator:	53 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L4836
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Blenheim L4836: Written off (destroyed) just eleven days later, on 30/01/1939 when hit telegraph wires after engine failure and crashed, RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire. Contemporary newspaper headlines (see link #6) state that the pilot "did not hear the horn" (presumably a reference to the stall warning horn). Pilot - Pilot Officer Peter Francis Gordon Jameson (flying solo) - was killed. According to the official Air Ministry announcement in "Flight" magazine (February 9, 1939 page 140 - see link #4):

"FLYING ACCIDENTS
THE Air Ministry regrets to announce the following accidents: —
P/O Peter Francis Gordon Jameson (flying solo) lost his life in an accident which occurred at Odiham on January 30 to an aircraft of No. 53 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999 (jmaes J. Halley, Air Britain)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
3. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?314-RAF-officer-deaths-1-1-29-3-9-39
4. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1939/1939%20-%200368.PDF
5. Londonderry Sentinel, Londonderry, Northern Ireland 31 January 1939 at https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/irish-newspapers?keywords=odiham&page=7
6. Northern Whig - Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 31 January 1939 at https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/irish-newspapers?keywords=odiham&page=7

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Mar-2018 18:30	Dr. John Smith	Added
06-Oct-2018 05:07	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]