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Date: | Monday 23 March 1936 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hart |
Owner/operator: | 10 FTS RAF |
Registration: | K5017 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hinstock, near Ternhill, Shropshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Ternhill, Shropshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Ternhill |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawkler Hart K5017, 10 FTS, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 23.3.36: Crashed and overturned on landing in thunderstorm, Hinstock, near Ternhill, Shropshire. Pilot - Acting Pilot Officer George Rowland Buchanan (aged 24) - killed. (His headstone - see photo in links #5 & #6 - explicitly states "killed in a flying accident near Ternhill Aerodrome March 23rd 1936 aged 24"). According to the official Air Ministry announcement in "Flight" magazine (April 2, 1936 page 357 - see link #6):
"FLYING ACCIDENTS
The Air Ministry regrets to announce that Acting P/O George Rowland Buchanan, of No. 10 Flying Training School, lost his life in an aircraft accident which occurred near Tern Hill on March 23. A.P/O Buchanan was the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft."
Sources:
1. Bruce Hyde
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 39)
3.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm 4.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?314-RAF-officer-deaths-1-1-29-3-9-39 5.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54163153 6.
https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1936/1936%20-%200842.PDF 7.
https://www.militaryimages.net/media/buchanan-george-rowland.53842/ Images:
Photo: Bruce Hyde archives
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-May-2016 07:16 |
harro |
Added |
14-Nov-2017 00:25 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Apr-2018 13:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Apr-2018 13:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
01-Nov-2018 17:40 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |