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Date: | Tuesday 16 November 1937 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Fury Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 11 FTS RAF |
Registration: | K2900 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Tangmere, Chichester, West Sussex, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Tangmere, West Sussex |
Destination airport: | RAF Tangmere |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawker Fury Mk.I K2900, 11 FTS, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 16/11/37 when hit ridge on landing at RAF Tangmere, Chichester, Sussex, and undercarriage collapsed. Struck off charge 3/1/38. Pilot was Cyril Gordon Terry Tucker #580216. This was his second accident in fortnight (he was also the pilot of K2039 on 2nd November 1937)
According to a contemporary local newspaper report: "Sunderland Daily Echo" - Tuesday 16 November 1937
"Pilot-Sergeant Tucker, the 19-year-old R.A.F. pilot who cruised round and round Tangmere (Sussex) aerodrome a fortnight ago before landing with a damaged undercarriage, crashed to-day in landing at the aerodrome. The undercarriage and propeller of the Hawker Fury single-seater fighter in which he had been exercising were smashed. Except for scratches and shock, the pilot was uninjured".
Sources:
1. Air Britain The K File The RAF of the 1930s
2. Coventry Evening Telegraph 16 November 1937
3. Sunderland Daily Echo - Tuesday 16 November 1937
4.
https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=19533.0 5.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_the_South_East.pdf Media:
Hawker Fury Mk.1 K2900 when with 1 Squadron, RAF Tangmere, in 1933
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Oct-2009 09:56 |
JINX |
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08-Mar-2018 20:07 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
08-Mar-2018 20:07 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Embed code] |
02-Oct-2018 07:37 |
paulmcmillan |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
25-Nov-2018 14:18 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
16-Jul-2022 20:49 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |