Date:	Tuesday 11 June 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Owner/operator:	264 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF
Registration:	L6970
MSN:	21
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L6970/'PS-M', 264 (Madras Presidency) Squadron, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11 June 1940 when stalled on landing and sank heavily into the ground, causing the undercarriage to collapse. One of the two crew was killed. According to the file at the National Archives at Kew (File AIR 81/2248 - see link #3): "Pilot Officer G A Hutcheson: killed; Leading Aircraftman I N Robinson: injured; aircraft accident, Duxford, Defiant L6970, 264 Squadron, 11 June 1940"
Crew of Defiant L6970:
P/O (79161) George Anderson HUTCHESON (Pilot) RAF - killed
LAC (????) I.N ROBINSON (WOp/AG) RAF- survived with injuries

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978)
2. The Turret Fighters Defiant and Roc by Alec Brew
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/2248: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16471650
4. ORB 264 Sqdn RAF (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/10/1939 to 31/5/1940: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/1553/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8397999
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=L6970
6. https://www.coldstreamhistorysociety.co.uk/projects/war-memorials/melrose/flying-officer-george-hutcheson/
7. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/264_squadron.html#1106

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Jul-2022 15:42	Dr. John Smith	Added
03-Jul-2022 07:53	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator]