ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305737
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Date: | Monday 25 May 1942 |
Time: | 14:52 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 25 OTU RAF |
Registration: | R1151 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Bircotes, Nottinghamshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Bircotes, Nottinghamshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Bircotes |
Narrative:Wellington R1151: Took off at 14:41hrs for a dual instruction training flight. 25/05/1942
Ten minutes later it returned to RAF Bircotes and attempting to land downwind by mistake. The landing was aborted and while banking into the strong wind to attempt to go round the aircraft lost height and flew into trees after control was lost. It seems likely that the survivor was the trainee pilot given the wireless operator and a member of ground crew were killed along with the instructor. Bircotes was a grass airfield used by parent airfield Finningley.
Crew:
F/O (89608) Stanley Le Vesconte WOOD (Pilot) RAFVR - killed
F/Sgt (751410) Ronald Alfred COLES (WOp/AG) RAF - killed
LAC (930367) Graham Langley EMMS (AG) RAFVR - killed;
Sgt ( (946003) R.G LIVINGSTONE (pilot u/t) RAFVR : injured;
Sources:
1.Wellington production list
2.AIR81/54414
3.CWGC
4.ORB
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