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Date: | Monday 8 August 1938 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Type: | Avro Anson Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 233 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K8831 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Humber Estuary, near Bridlington Bay, East Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Gosport, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Avro Anson Mk.I K8831: Written off (aircraft initially posted as "missing") 8/8/38 when (presumed) crashed into the Humber Estuary, near Bridlington Bay, East Yorkshire, after loss of control when formation flew into cloud on transfer flight. All four crew killed:
Crew:
Sgt. Cecil Joseph Le Patrick Gordon (pilot),
AC 2 Thomas Charles Andrews,
AC 1 Melville George Brand,
AC 1 Leslie Freeman
According to a contemporary report in Flight Magazine (August 18, 1938 p.153 see link #6):
"With reference to the disappearance on August 8 of an aircraft of No. 233 (General Reconnaissance) Squadron, Thornaby, the Air Ministry announces with regret that as extensive air and ground searches have failed to find the aircraft and the occupants: it must now be accepted that the following personnel lost their lives: —
Sgt. Cecil Joseph Le Patrick Gordon (pilot),
A/C.2 Thomas Charles Andrews,
A/C.1 Melville George Brand,
A/C.1 Leslie Freeman."
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976, page 73)
2. Folha da Manhã 10 August 1938, p 4
3. Mystery of Two RAF 'Planes". Irish Times. Dublin. 1938-08-10. p. 7
4.
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?95003-8-8-1938-Anson-K8831-233sqd 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aerial_disappearances 6.
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1938/1938%20-%202345.html 7.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?13054-Avro-Anson-Mk-I-K8831-8th-August-1938 8.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1930s-incident-logs#1938 9.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm 10.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-avro-652-anson-i-bridlington-4-killed Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-Feb-2008 08:33 |
JINX |
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19-Mar-2012 05:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Jun-2012 11:52 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
15-Jul-2013 21:49 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
16-Jul-2015 15:26 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
06-Feb-2017 18:50 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Dec-2017 18:15 |
Nepa |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
15-Mar-2018 18:49 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
13-Nov-2018 07:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |