ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 225395
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 August 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 257 (Burma) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | MN492 |
| MSN: | FM-T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Llangennith Beach, Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Fairwood Common, Swansea, West Glamorgan, South Wales |
This Typhoon was built by Glosters at Hucclecote, and assigned to 257 Squadron as "FM-T". On a sortie from RAF Fairwood Common, the aircraft's windscreen oiled up and the pilot was forced to belly-land on the beach at Llangennith, Glamorgan, on 23rd August 1944. The aircraft came down on the inter-tidal zone (the area between the low tide and high tide points) and was subsequently overtaken by the tide. Aircraft thus written off (damaged beyond repair) due to prolonged immersion in salt water. Pilot, Flt Lt D P Jenkins, was slightly injured
Sources:
1. Halley, J J, 1991, Royal Air Force Aircraft MA100 to MZ999, p 85
2. http://www.ggat.org.uk/timeline/pdf/Military%20Aircraft%20Crash%20Sites%20in%20Southeast%20Wales.pdf
3. https://ms-my.facebook.com/hawkertyphoonRB396/photos/there-were-5-recorded-losses-on-this-day-in-1943-1944-and-1945-with-2-pilots-saf/2188046214743980/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 January 1945 | PD454 | 257 (Burma) Sqn RAF | 0 | near B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant |  |
w/o |
| 20 January 1945 | PD598 | 257 (Burma) Sqn RAF | 0 | near Dubbeldam, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-May-2019 00:22 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 24-May-2019 13:18 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 18-Jul-2021 12:21 | TB | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Operator] |
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