ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 226559
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| Date: | Sunday 17 December 1939 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | S of ACOp RAF |
| Registration: | P6899 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Goonhilly Downs, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV P6899, School of Army Co-operation, Old Sarum; written off (damaged beyond repair) when crash landed at Goonhilly Downs, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall (at approximate Coordinates: 50.0394°N 5.1709°W). No fatalities, but both crew injured. Note that this is at variance with the official Air Ministry file on the incident (File AIR 81/1740) which states:
"Blenheim L6899, Blenheim Reinforcement Squadron; aircraft accident, Goonhilly Downs, 17 December 1939. Pilot Officer C R Wylie, Pilot Officer J R Krohn injured". The Blenheim was delivered 25 October 1939 and Struck Off Charge 13 January 1940. It should be noted that the serial L6899 is presumably a typographical error - L6899 was a Miles Magister which crashed at RAF Manston, Kent on 18 March 1941
Pilot Officer Clive R Wylie (RAF Service Number 41769 and a New Zealander) recovered and returned to service; on 16 June 1940 he was killed in the crash of Blenheim R3817 on a reconnaissance sortie west of Dreux, France.
It is also noteworthy that the official file AIR 81/1740 is "closed", and thus unavailable for public scrutiny, for 82 years, until 1 January 2023. The decision to retain the file and keep it closed was taken by the National Archives in 2015 on the grounds of "Exemption 1: Personal information where the applicant is a 3rd party" and "Exemption 2: Information provided in confidence"
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 36)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) AIR 81/1740: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16359589
3. Airfix Magazine February 1976
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goonhilly_Downs .
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Jun-2019 20:18 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 25-Jun-2019 20:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2019 19:25 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 18-Dec-2019 22:31 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 27-Aug-2021 10:31 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 27-Aug-2021 10:44 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
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