ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 2254
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| Date: | Friday 4 December 1936 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: | Hawker Audax Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 9 FTS RAF |
| Registration: | K5174 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea, off Redcar, North Yorkshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Hawker Audax Mk.1 K5174, 9 FTS, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 4/12/36 when stalled whilst flying in a rainstorm during a night navigation exercise, and crashed into the North Sea off Redcar, North Yorkshire. A number of sea searches were carried out to try and locate the pilots body, and he was posted as "missing, believed drowned"
It would be almost two months later, on the 27/1/37 when his body was washed ashore. Pilot - Acting Pilot Officer Hugh O'Neil RAF - was killed. According to the official Air Ministry announcement in "Flight" magazine (December 10, 1936, page 636 - see link #4)
"FLYING ACCIDENT
The Air Ministry regrets to announce that Acting P/O Hugh O'Neill is missing and believed to have lost his life as the result of an accident at sea off Redcar, Yorkshire, on December 4, to an aircraft of No. 9 Flying Training School, Thornaby. Acting P/O O'Neill was the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft."
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.allenby.info/aircraft/planes/insea/k5174.html
4. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1936/1936%20-%203401.PDF
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?314-RAF-officer-deaths-1-1-29-3-9-39
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Feb-2008 11:44 | JINX | Added |
| 03-Mar-2018 16:59 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Mar-2018 17:17 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2018 22:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Nov-2018 19:50 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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