ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 210139
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| Date: | Tuesday 12 December 1939 |
| Time: | 11:00 LT |
| Type: | Avro Tutor Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 605 (County of Warwick) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | K3309 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sidlesham, 3 miles South of Chichester, West Sussex -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Tangmere, West Sussex |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Avro Tutor Mk.I K3309, 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron, RAF Tangmere: Written off (destroyed) 12/12/39 when wing hit the ground while low-flying, Sidlesham, three miles south of Chichester, West Sussex (at approximate co ordinates 50.7857°N 0.79036°W). Both crew killed:
Pilot Officer Patrick Constable Fraser (Service Number 41839, aged 20) killed
Pilot Officer Maxtone Eric Gibson Mailer (Service Number 42246, aged 24) killed
Although Avro Tuto K3309 was on the strength of 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron, the above two pilots were with 92 Squadron, RAF (which was also based at RAF Tangmere at the time). Hence the details of this crash - and the loss of two pilots - was recorded in the 92 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book) (Air Ministry Form 540) as follows:
"12.12.39: Weather dull but fine. Local flying practise continued. At 10.30 hrs P/O Nailer and P/O Fraser took off in Avro Tutor K3309 borrowed from 605 Squadron for local flying and landing practise. At about 11.45 hours it was learnt from the Police that a yellow training machine had crashed near Sidlesham. This turned out to be the Tutor K3309. The C.O and Flt Lt Green went at once to the scene of the crash by car and found the aircraft a total wreck in a ditch and both Officers dead. It would appear that their aircraft had been engaged in low flying and on executing a turn near the ground it had lost height, put its port wing tips into the ground and crashed into a ditch."
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939a.htm
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2459037/fraser,-patrick-constable/
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2455421/mailer,-maxtone-eric-gibson/
5, http://sirius1935.wixsite.com/92squadron/form-540
6. 92 Squadron RAF ORB (Air Ministry Form 540) October 1939-May 1940: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8455510
7. https://www.twgpp.org/photograph/view/1681197
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Apr-2018 15:15 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 09-Oct-2018 19:38 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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