ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 156131
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Date: | Friday 23 April 1943 |
Time: | 12:00 |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 55 OTU RAF |
Registration: | AG264 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Above Gill Cove, Brim Fell, Coniston Fells -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Usworth, Durham |
Destination airport: | RAF Usworth |
Narrative:Two pupil pilots of No. 55 Operational Training Unit were instructed to carry out individual low flying and D/F homing practice and to stay in the Maryport area due to the prevailing weather.
At about 1200 hours the two Hurricanes, flying close together in poor visibility, crashed into Brim Fell on the southwest side of the Lake District.
Both aircraft were destroyed in the high speed impact and both pilots must have been killed instantly.
Pilot:
F/Sgt (Aus414123) Henry Marinus Atherton RAAF - killed.
R.I.P.
Sources:
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/ag264.html]
CWGC
Revision history:
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12-Sep-2013 01:32 |
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31-Mar-2014 06:31 |
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09-May-2015 12:06 |
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10-Mar-2018 08:04 |
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