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Date: | Thursday 18 June 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIb |
Owner/operator: | 58 OTU RAF |
Registration: | P8644 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Near Bogside Station, Clackmannanshire, Scotland -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Stn Grangemouth, Scotland |
Destination airport: | RAF Grangemouth |
Narrative:During an air exercise the pilot of this aircraft took avoiding action by making a steep dive. In the pull up from the dive the starboard wing of the Spitfire detached and the aircraft crashed and burned out.
The pilot was killed.
P/O William Manley BUTLER J/10151, RCAF (21) is buried at Grangemouth Grandsable Cemetery.
R.I.P.
Sources:
Spitfire production list.
RAFWeb.org Casualties 1942.
Revision history:
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23-Apr-2021 04:49 |
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01-May-2021 00:39 |
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10-Jun-2022 02:01 |
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