ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 302676
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| Date: | Friday 20 February 1942 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 17 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | Z5899 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bearwood, Staffordshire, England. -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Upwood, Huntingdonshire |
Blenheim Z5899: Took off for a Low level navigation exercise (between 500 and six hundred feet). 20/02/1942.
Blenheim aircraft was flying in poor visibility when it hit some barrage balloon cables.
While flying on the second leg , the crew strayed 15 miles off track and at 10:28hrs the starboard wingtip was sliced off by a barrage balloon cable in the Birmingham defensive area. Out of control the Blenheim crashed to the ground at Bearwood, Staffordshire, England.
Crew:
Sgt (R/71497) William Thomas KYLE (Pilot) RCAF - killed
Sgt (1282872) Louis Stanhope DE LISSER (Obs.) RAFVR . killed
Sgt (992598) Ernest SCOTT (WOp/AG) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1.Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999
2.http://www.rafupwood.co.uk/17otulosses.html
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