ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 78533
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| Date: | Monday 1 April 1940 |
| Time: | 15:15 |
| Type: | Hawker Henley Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 1 AACU RAF |
| Registration: | L3245 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sea 50 yards off shore near Bude, Cornwall -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The Hawker Henley Target Tug III L3245 of ‘D’ Flight, 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit, took off at 1420 hrs from RAF Cleve for a target towing practice. It experienced engine failure a mile north of Bude and ditched 50 yards off shore in heavy seas at 1515 (or 1445 according to another source). Both crew members got clear of the sinking machine but were drowned in the surf.
Crew (both drowned):
Plt Off Roderick Campbell Mathieson (pilot, age 22)
AC1 Edward John Robinson (drogue operator)
Mathieson was a New Zealander member of RAF with 331 flying hours.
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130117050441/http://www.rafdavidstowmoor.org:80/pages/crash_log/crashlog40.html
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?2552-P-O-RC-MAthieson-40933-RAF
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bude
http://www.maplandia.com/united-kingdom/england/south-west/cornwall-county/bude/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Sep-2010 00:44 | angels one five | Added |
| 03-Jan-2012 06:34 | Uli Elch | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Jan-2012 15:08 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 13-Aug-2013 02:02 | JINX | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Feb-2015 16:47 | Victor III | Updated [Operator] |
| 19-Jul-2017 09:58 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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