ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 209042
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| Date: | Tuesday 13 April 1937 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Westland Wapiti Mk IIA |
| Owner/operator: | 27 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | K1301 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near RAF Miramshah, Waziristan, North West Frontier -
 India
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Miramshah, Waziristan, India |
| RAF Kohat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, India | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Westland Wapiti Mk,IIA, K1301: One of a batch of 56 Wapiti IIAs K1254-K1309, delivered between October 1930 and March 1931 under contract 21442/30, for Army co-operation duties in India. K1301 was delivered on 17/3/31 to the Packing Depot for shipment ex-UK to India, thence to Aircraft Depot Drigh Road, Karachi 28/5/31. With 60 Squadron by November 1936 coded "S" and later "T". Later to 27 Squadron but date not recorded. (Presumably early in 1937).
Engine lost power on take-off, swung and blew up, Miramshah 13/4/37, killing both crew:
Pilot Officer John Barrington Pascoe-Webb (Australian national, aged 22) killed
L/AC Raymond William Gibbs killed
According to the official Air Ministry Announcement in "Flight" magazine (April 22, 1937 page 390- see link #3)
"FLYING ACCIDENTS
The Air Ministry regrets to announce that P/O John Barrington Pascoe-VVebb and L.A/C. Raymond William Gibbs lost their lives in an accident which occurred near Miranshah, on April 13, to an aircraft of No. 27 (Bomber) Squadron, Kohat, India. P/O Pascoe-Webb was the pilot of the aircraft and L.A/C. Gibbs the passenger."
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1976, page 7)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Accf1939.htm
3. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1937/1937%20-%201034.html
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/04550.php
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Apr-2018 00:08 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 10-Nov-2018 13:13 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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