ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 69305
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Date: | Tuesday 5 April 1938 |
Time: | 12:10 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Harrow Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 75 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K6995 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Tibthorpe, near Driffield, North Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Driffield, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Driffield, North Yorkshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The crew was performing a night training flight on behalf of 75 Squadron. Aircraft left RAF Driffield in the evening and completed some circuits around the airbase. While returning to the airfield in poor weather conditions, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in a field located in Tibthorpe. All five occupants were killed.
Crew:
Pilot:Flt/Sgt Edward James Merchant RAF killed.
Sgt Ronald George Cowley Marshall RAF killed.
Cpl Walter Greaves RAF killed.
AC1 Ronald Herbert Fish RAF killed.
AC1 George Jeffrey Humphries RAF killed.
Sources:
1. Air Britain The K File The RAF of the 1930s
2.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0OlBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LKoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2460,3455945&dq=royal+air+force+crash&hl=en 3.
http://www.greatdriffield.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=816 4.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-handley-page-hp54-harrow-ii-tibthorpe-5-killed Images:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Oct-2009 23:50 |
JINX |
Added |
15-May-2012 13:08 |
ryan |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
26-Feb-2018 23:21 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
27-Oct-2018 19:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
23-Aug-2021 10:29 |
Cobar |
Updated [Photo] |
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