ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 22256
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| Date: | Thursday 12 September 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Blackburn Skua Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 4 FPP ATA |
| Registration: | L2969 |
| MSN: | 7840/13 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Between Cross of Greet Road & Bolland Knotts Road near High -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hullavington |
| RAF Donbristle |
The Blackburn Skua II L2969 crashed while being ferried by No.4 Ferry Pilots’ Pool from Hullavington to Donbristle on the 12th September 1940. While in the High Bentham area, Lancashire, the aircraft’s engine failed leaving the pilot, Petty Officer D. R. Strachan, with no choice but to abandon the aircraft, it ploughed into open moorland spreading wreckage over a wide area. Strachan was unhurt.
Very little remains where the aircraft impacted, the engine was once in some reeds nearby but this was recovered during the 1980s by the now defunct Pennine Aviation Museum, they also recovered the aircraft’s undercarriage and parts of the wing folding mechanism.
Sources:
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/pennines.htm
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/pennines/penninesl2929.htm
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/Skua.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentham,_North_Yorkshire
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Aug-2008 08:52 | Anon. | Added |
| 30-May-2013 16:11 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 09-Aug-2013 05:06 | JINX | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase] |
| 28-Mar-2015 09:06 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 19-Nov-2018 20:01 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Operator] |
| 27-Dec-2018 00:34 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Nov-2020 15:44 | Peter Clarke | Updated [Registration] |
| 05-Jan-2021 17:15 | Peter Clarke | Updated [Registration, Cn, Narrative] |
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