ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 207440
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Date: | Tuesday 14 July 1942 |
Time: | |
Type: | Short Stirling I |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R9331 |
MSN: | MG-Y |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Flint House Cambridgeshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Waterbeach |
Narrative:The aircraft overshot the runway at RAF Waterbeach due to travelling too fast for a landing. It finished up at Flint House Cambridgeshire.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Edwin Shaw Kennedy RAF 108023 (NCO:1119631 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 11 November, 1941)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant G Cox RAF [Injured]
Navigator : Sergeant William Frederick Gordon RCAF R/66094
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Walter John Jarvis RAFVR 1190623
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Lawrence Albert Davies RAFVR 1183683
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Deryck Bonney Beales RAFVR 907416
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Robert Matthew Urwin RAFVR 1014657
Four of the crew were later killed in BF387, 9/10 November 1942.
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Mar-2018 22:57 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
12-Nov-2018 17:04 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
05-Apr-2024 18:40 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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