ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 68547
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| Date: | Thursday 17 October 1935 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Bristol Bulldog Mk IIA |
| Owner/operator: | RAF College Cranwell |
| Registration: | K1693 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | High Dyke Farm, Brauncewell, near Cranwell, Lincolnshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Bristol Bulldog Mk.IIA K1693, RAF College, Cranwell: Written off (destroyed) 17/10/35 when control lost during aerobatics, abandoned & spun into the ground at High Dyke Farm, Brauncewell, near Cranwell, Lincolnshire. Pilot - Pilot Officer Neville Fisher (aged 21) - was killed when baled out too low for parachute to deploy.
According to a contemporary report in "The Aeroplane", 23 October 1935:
“Evidence was taken that Mr. Fisher was a competent pilot. He learned to fly with the Cambridge University Air Squadron and had been at Cranwell for a few weeks. A bricklayer who saw the accident said that he first saw the machine at about 100 feet in a spin. He did not see the pilot jump. The body was found about 70 feet from the machine. A verdict of accidental death was returned.”
Sources:
1. Air Britain The K File The RAF of the 1930s
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm
3. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1930s-incident-logs#1935
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?17884-RAF-fatalities-1935
5. http://www.interment.net/data/eng/lincoln/st_andrew/index.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Oct-2009 12:28 | JINX | Added |
| 01-Mar-2018 17:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Apr-2018 00:37 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 28-Mar-2019 13:32 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 17-Dec-2019 18:18 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 17-Dec-2019 18:34 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 22-Feb-2022 20:18 | Jinx 40 | Updated [[Operator, Operator]] |
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