ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 219928
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| Date: | Tuesday 30 June 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  North American P-51 Mustang Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 2 (AC) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | AG551 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Fenning Island, Somerset, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire |
| RAF Sawbridgeworth |
In the course of an air firing exercise at Stert Point ranges on Fenning Island, after having fired on the target, the aircraft hit the sea wall immediately behind the targets and disintegrated, the entire cockpit section being thrown out.
The pilot may have suffered from 'target fixation' as no attempt was made to pull out of the dive onto the targets.
Pilot:
P/O (116424) Gerald Patrick Dobson YOUNG - killed.
Sources:
'Where the Lysanders were …..' (the story of Sawbridgeworth's airfields) Paul A Doyle, pub 1995 by Forward Airfield Research Publishing. ISBN 09525 624 05
ORB 2 Sqdn RAF
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Dec-2018 12:30 | paddy | Added |
| 24-Dec-2018 09:02 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 21-Apr-2020 08:11 | Iwosh | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 13-Aug-2020 09:22 | Apen | Updated [Registration, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 13-Aug-2020 09:33 | Xindel XL | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 03-Jan-2022 21:45 | angels one five | Updated [Location, Phase, Narrative] |
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