ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 274708
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Date: | Wednesday 21 July 1943 |
Time: | c. |
Type: | Supermarine Seafire Mk IIc |
Owner/operator: | 886 NAS FAA RN |
Registration: | MB157 |
MSN: | 3491 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | The Firth of Clyde, Scotland, -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | - |
Departure airport: | Aircraft carrier 'HMS Attacker' |
Destination airport: | Aircraft carrier 'HMS Attacker' |
Narrative:During flying training from the aircraft carrier 'HMS Attacker', stationed in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, Seafire MB157 stalled into the sea on the approach to landing on the 21rd July 1943. The Pilot, Lt, H Lang RNZN survived the ditching and was safely recovered from the sea.
Aircraft carrier 'HMS Attacker, following modifications and working up at Liverpool, between April and July 1943, arrived in Scotland to embark 879 and 886 RN Air Squadrons from the Royal Naval Air Station Machrihanish (HMS Landrail), Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, for flying training, prior to deployment for operations in the Mediterranean in early August 1943.
Sources:
http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ESCORT/ATTACKER.htm#.Ye8xaNHP2M8 http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/SQUADRONS/886_Squadron.htm#.Ye80pNHP2M_ http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p059.html https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/MB157 https://www.bing.com/maps?q=Royal+Naval+Air+Station+Machrihanish+%28HMS+Landrail%29%2C&form=ANNTH1&refig=6a8afa02bf9a4b5692ba32fd4a3526c9 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Jan-2022 14:13 |
Peter Clarke |
Added |
07-Feb-2022 15:47 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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