ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 207064
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Date: | Thursday 17 June 1937 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Blackburn Shark Mk III |
Owner/operator: | S of NCOp RAF |
Registration: | K8511 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Solent Estuary off Eastney, Portsea Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Blackburn Shark Mk.II K8511, A Flight, School of Naval Co-Operation, Fleet Air Arm, RAF Lee-on-Solent: Written off (destroyed) 17/6/37 due to structural failure - broke up in flight pulling out of dive, during torpedo practice, and crashed into the Solent Estuary off Eastney, Portsea Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Pilot Officer James Grahame Thompson (pilot) RAF - was killed. According to the official Air Ministry announcement in "Flight" magazine (July 1, 1937 page 29 - see link #4)
"FLYING ACCIDENT
The Ministry regrets to announce that P/O James Grahame Thompson lost his life in an accident which occurred off Eastney, Portsmouth, on June 17 to an aircraft of the School of Naval Cooperation, Lee-on-the-Solent. P/O Thompson was the sole occupant of the aircraft"
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 70)
2.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm 3.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html 4.
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1937/1937%20-%201853.html 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastney Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Mar-2018 12:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
11-Apr-2018 18:50 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
11-Apr-2018 18:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
04-Dec-2018 16:21 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
27-Aug-2021 10:45 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator] |
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