Date:	Tuesday 9 April 1946
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire F Mk XIVe
Owner/operator:	6 Sqn RIAF
Registration:	TZ152
MSN:	6S 676517
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Namkon Railway Station, Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand, British India -   India
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RIAF Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
TZ152: Spitfire FR. XIVe, MSN 6S-676517. Built by Vickers Armstrongs (Supermarine) at Aldermaston with Griffon G65 engine. Delivered to 33MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire 19-7-45. To 82MU RAF Lichfield, Fradley, Staffordshire 24-8-45 for packing and crating for shipment overseas. Shipped on the SS 'Ocean Gallant' 17-9-45, arriving India 14-10-45. To ACSEA (Air Command South East Asia) 29-11-45. To 6 Squadron RIAF at RIAF Ranchi, Jharkhand, India from 1-1-46

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 9-4-46: lost control during Fighter affiliation exercises, and crashed near Namkon Railway Station, Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand, British India 9-4-46. The aircraft went into a half roll during unauthorised mock air combat, went out of control and dived into the ground. (One source gives the crash location as "4 miles East of Namku"). Pilot killed

Crew of Spitfire TZ152
Flying Officer (IN/2933) Clynton Albert Hall (Pilot) RIAF- killed on active service 9-4-46, buried at Ranchi War Cemetery, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Aircraft destroyed; Struck Off Charge 25-4-46 as Cat. E(FA)

Namkum is a neighbourhood of Ranchi in the Ranchi Sadar subdivision of the Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand, located at 23.33732°N 85.37689°E. Namkon railway station (not Namkum), station code NKM, is the railway station serving the Namkum block of the capital city of Ranchi in the Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It belongs to the Ranchi division of the South Eastern Railway Zone of the Indian Railways.

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15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namkum,_Ranchi#Railways

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Jul-2023 18:15	Dr. John Smith	Added
03-Jul-2023 21:37	Nepa	Updated
29-Jul-2023 16:19	Dr. John Smith	Updated
16-Sep-2023 13:51	Dr. John Smith	Updated