ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 301835
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| Date: | Friday 13 February 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 614 (County of Glamorgan) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | Z6033 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | sea near RAF Inverness, the Moray Firth in Highland, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | RAF Inverness |
| RAF Macmerry |
Blenheim Z6033: Took off for flight to RAF Macmerry. 13/02/1942
P/O Mummery and crew went to Aberdeen for photography picked up, Capt. Mason (A.L.O) there and continued to RAF Inverness.
Just after take off from RAF Inverness to RAF Macmerry the port engine of P/O Mummery’s aircraft failed and the machine crashed into shallow water in the Moray Firth, Scotland. The crew got out of the aircraft since it was only partly submerged but owing to the current , Sgt Nightingale (obs.) was unable to cling to the aircraft and was drowned. P/O Mummery and Sgt Field (WOp/AG) were rescued.
Crew:
P/O (45603) Walter Robert MUMMERY (pilot) RAF: Ok
Sgt (905538) William Jack Owen NIGHTINGALE (Obs.) RAFVR: drowned;
Lt K.A WHITTOME (pass.) RNVR: Ok
Sgt ???? J H FIELD (WOp/Ag) RAF: injured.
Sources:
1.https://books.google.nl/books
2.ORB 614 Sqdn RAF
3.AIR81/12180
4.CWGC
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