Date:	Saturday 11 July 1942
Time:	day
Type:	Fairey Battle TT Mk I
Owner/operator:	1 OTU RAF
Registration:	L5717
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Solway Firth, 3 miles east of Southerness Point, Dumfries-shire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Silloth, Cumberland
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Fairey Battle L5717: 1 OTU (Operational Training Unit) RAF Silloth, Cumberland. Delivered 14 June 1940. Written off (destroyed) 11 July 1942 when engine failed and aircraft ditched and sank into the Solway Firth, 3 miles East of Southerness Point, Dumfries-shire (at approximate coordinates 54"50.0' N, 3"40.0" W). Of the two crew, one was killed (drowned) and the other was rescued
Crew of Battle L5717:
Corporal (Kapral) Jozef Krzysztoszek (Pilot, Polish Air Force, Service Number P/783216) - killed on active service 11/7/1942, body recovered, buried at Causewayhead Cemetery, Silloth, Cumberland
AC1 Z.E. Martin RAF (Winch operator) - survived and rescued

1. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p.156)
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1979 p.37)
3. http://www.polishwargraves.nl/brit/4208.htm
4. https://canmore.org.uk/site/300060/fairey-battle-i-solway-firth
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?19678-1-OTU-Logbook-Entries
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7503781/JOZEF%20KRZYSZTOSZEK/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southerness
8. https://listakrzystka.pl/en/krzysztoszek-jozef/
9. https://www.polishairforce.pl/_cmsilloth.html (Polish Text)
10. https://linia.com.pl/2018/09/28/szkolil-pilotow-z-dywizjonu-303/ (Polish text)
11. https://niebieskaeskadra.pl/?control=8&id=618&title=krzysztoszek-jozef (Polish text)
12. https://www.facebook.com/TygodnikLiniaOtwocka/posts/2233818483359050/ (Polish text)
13. https://cumbria.pl/2-listopad-wizyta-na-grobach-polskich-zolnierzy-w-silloth/ (Polish text)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Mar-2008 22:57	JINX	Added
11-Oct-2011 10:25	rvargast17	Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative]
09-Nov-2018 20:50	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator]
25-Oct-2020 20:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
25-Oct-2020 20:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Nature, Source, Narrative]
26-Oct-2020 11:20	Digger	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Narrative, Operator]