ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 309813
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| Date: | Sunday 26 March 1944 |
| Time: | 09:13 |
| Type: |  Curtiss Tomahawk Mk IIA |
| Owner/operator: | 1683 Bomber Defense Training Flight |
| Registration: | AH882 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Bruntingthorpe. Leicestershire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Market Harborough, Leicestershire |
| RAF Bruntingthorpe. Leicestershire |
Training flight. Pilot took off from RAF RAF Market Harborough and landed within 10 minutes at RAF Bruntingthorpe, swinging to starboard and breaking the landing gear. As this was the pilot's third accident (2 total wrecks) in Tomahawks, the Accident Review Board recommended that he be posted "to more docile and easier to handke types."
F/S P A Kerr RAAF
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses by W R CHORLTY, volume 8, page 211.
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