ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 206923
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| Date: | Tuesday 10 December 1935 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Avro Tutor Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 3 FTS RAF |
| Registration: | K2496? |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | River Humber, near Brough, East Yorkshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Grantham, Lincolnshire |
| Brough Aerodrome, Brough, E. Yorkshire (EGNB) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Avro Tutor Mk.I, 3 FTS, RAF Grantham, Lincolnshire: Written off (destroyed) 10/12/35 when stalled in a turn and dived into the River Humber, near Brough, East Yorkshire. Pilot - Acting Pilot Officer Basil Linnington Evans (aged 21) - was killed. According to a published contemporary source ("The Aeroplane" 18 December 1935"):
"The Air Ministry regrets to announce that Acting Pilot Officer Basil Linnington Evans lost his life as the result of an accident on December 10" [1935] "when the aeroplane piloted by him fell into the River Humber near Brough. He was the sole occupant of the machine".
NOTE: The aircraft involved is quoted by some published sources as K2496, and by others as K3258
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm
3. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?627-AP-O-Basil-Linnington-Evans-10-12-35
4. http://www.ebbc.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1475140272.pdf
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?314-RAF-officer-deaths-1-1-29-3-9-39/page2
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Mar-2018 18:33 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 01-Mar-2018 18:34 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Mar-2018 18:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-Apr-2018 01:08 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source] |
| 23-Nov-2018 16:59 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
| 23-Feb-2022 07:46 | Jinx 40 | Updated [Destination airport] |
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