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Date: | Sunday 5 February 1939 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hind |
Owner/operator: | 22 E&RFTS |
Registration: | K6752 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Chatteris, Cambridgeshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Teversham, Cambridge |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawker Hind Mk.1 K6752, 22 E&RFTS, RAF Cambridge: Written off (destroyed) when went out of control and spun into the ground near Chatteris, Cambridgeshire whilst performing aerobatics. Pilot - Sgt Ralph Herbert Wright (RAFVR, aged 19) - was killed
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 54)
2.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Mar-2018 01:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
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