ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305338
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Date: | Wednesday 4 June 1941 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 21 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | V6323 |
MSN: | YH-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North sea 2.5miles north of Kinnaird Head near Fraserburgh. Scotland -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Blenheim V6323: Took off for Training flight /navigation exercise. 04/06/1941
Lost on a navigation exercise off Kinnaird Head. Crew missing. Crashed into North sea 2.5miles north of Kinnaird Head near Fraserburgh.
Crew:
Sgt (904070) Eric William ASHWOOD (pilot) RAFVR - killed
Sgt (917235) William Roy MEAKER (obs.) RAFVR - killed
Sgt (976352) Philip Richard SUTTON (WOp/AG) RAFVR - killed
The Kinaird Head Coastguard heard a splash and an explosion two miles distant after seeing two aircraft disappear into the mist. They launched the 'John and Charles Kennedy' lifeboat to investigate. They found only a patch of oil, a deflated life raft and a few items of flotsam belonging to a Blenheim bomber.
https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/200759
Sources:
Blenheim production list.
1.AIR81/6753
2.CWGC
3.ORB
4.https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/200759
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