ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305831
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| Date: | Monday 2 September 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 40 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | L8796 |
| MSN: | BL-C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF West Raynham, near Fakenham, Norfolk, England -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire, |
| RAF West Raynham |
Blenheim L8796/C: Took off at 19:50 hrs for a bombing operation to Nordenham (Ger.) 01/09/1940
On made crash landing on return from operational flight over Germany, the Blenheim struck a tree and broke in two. 02/09/1940
Crew:
P/O.(41086) Roy Valentine WHITEHEAD (pilot) RAF - injured
Sgt (580946) Alfred Robert COBURN (obs) RAF - killed
Sgt.(????) J.E. ROBBINS (WOp/AG) RAF - injured
Sources:
1.Blenheim production list
2.AIR81/3144
3.ORB
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 May 1940 | P4909 | 40 Sqn RAF | 2 | between Beuvry and Sailly-labourse, 3 km ESE of Béthune. |  |
w/o |
| 14 June 1940 | N3592 | 40 Sqn RAF | 3 | Fresney (Eure), 13 km SE of Evreux, Normandy | |
w/o |
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