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Date: | Tuesday 4 November 1947 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Tempest Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 226 OCU RAF |
Registration: | PR657 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bentwaters, Woodbridge, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk |
Narrative:Hawker Tempest PR657, 226 OCU, RAF: Written off (destroyed) in a flying accident at RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, 4 November 1947. Aircraft lost propeller blade, lost height and crashed onto the Station HQ Building.
At 2000 feet agl (above ground level) the aircraft's engine was clearly heard to be over speeding. A propellor blade came off, followed by the propeller mechanism and the reduction gearing.
The aircraft then began a gentle descending turn, until it struck the Station Headquarters building a RAF Bentwaters, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Pilot killed, plus one person (AC.1 Ground Crew) on the ground also killed.
Crew of Tempest Mk. II PR657
Pilot II (1606028) John Frederick JANES (Pilot, aged 23) RAFVR: Killed on active service 04/11/1947, buried at St. Leonards Churchyard, Heston, Middlesex
AC1 (2296336) Frank Robinson (Ground Crew) RAFVR. Killed on active service 04/11/1947.
Buried Rowley Regis Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.68. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.346
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/29/W2400:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578246 4. 226 OCU RAF ORB for the period 1-8-46 to 31-12-1950: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/1632:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101342 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2735053/janes,-john-frederick/ 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2713192/robinson,-frank/ 7.
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/john-frederick-janes-24-fn9jr5 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._226_Operational_Conversion_Unit_RAF#Operational_history 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bentwaters#Second_World_War Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Nov-2019 23:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
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27-Nov-2019 11:51 |
Nepa |
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06-May-2023 21:46 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [[Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator]] |
07-May-2023 08:14 |
Nepa |
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