ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 302798
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 October 1940 |
| Time: | 11:15 |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IF |
| Owner/operator: | 600 (City of London) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | L1272 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Kirby Malzeard, England -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Catterick, Yorkshire |
Blenheim L1272: Took off for a Local flying exercise. 23/10/1940
Pilot was being vectored by RAF Dishforth Flying Control. 600 Sqdn had just arrived at Catterick a few days earlier from the South-East England. The pilot was inexperienced on flying on instruments, when the weather made a turn for the worse he lost control whilst flying on his instruments. The aircraft struck the ground near Kirby Malzeard in a near vertical dive and broke up sadly killing the pilot instantly at 11:15hrs
Crew:
P/O (41421) Peter Richard Scott HURST (pilot) RAF - killed
Sources:
1:ORB 600 Sqdn RAF
2.CWGC
3.AIR81/3902
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