ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 311176
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 October 1946 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster I |
| Owner/operator: | BCIS RAF |
| Registration: | HK762 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Finningley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire |
| RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire |
Avro Lancaster B. I, HK762, BCIS (Bomber Command Instructor's School) RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 23 October 1946 on a training flight at RAF Finningley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Crew were practicing landing without flaps, the pilot applied the brakes too harshly, and the brakes faded towards the end the landing run. The aircraft continued to roll off the end of the runway, losing its starboard wheel when it ran into a drainage ditch.
Aircraft not repaired, and was written off (Struck off charge as Cat. E) on 27 November 1946.
The Bomber Command Instructors School had been established at RAF Finningley, Doncaster, in December 1944 and this organisation, with a variety of bomber types, saw out the remaining months of the war at this station and did not depart until the spring of 1947.
Sources:
1. Bomber Command Losses by W R CHORLEY, volume 8, page 226.
2. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.56. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft HA100-HZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
4. Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.103: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
5. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 p.236
6. The Lancaster File (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
7. BCIS RAF ORB for the period 1-1-1946 to 31-1-1947: National Archives PRO Kew File AIR29/1786: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101496
8. https://www.avro-lancaster.info/hkseries/HK762
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Finningley#Post_Second_World_War
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Apr-2023 19:50 | redsix | Added |
| 24-May-2023 17:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated |
| 26-May-2023 18:21 | Nepa | Updated |
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