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Date: | Sunday 24 May 1942 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk Ic |
Owner/operator: | 1483 (TT & G) Flt RAF |
Registration: | T2803 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Stanton, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Newmarket, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off for training flight. At around 16:00hrs, the Wellington's main spar assembly failed, and the bomber spun into the ground at Stanton, Suffolk.
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses by W R CHORLEY, volume 8, page 202.
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