Date:	Sunday 31 August 1941
Time:	night
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Owner/operator:	96 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N3383
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sandbach Grammar School, Crewe Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Cranage, Middlewich, Cheshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Defiant N3383: Sustained Engine failure and Crash landed in a field adjacent to Sandbach Grammar School, Crewe Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, 31 August 1941. Both crew survived, although seriously injured.
Crew:
P/O E H Jacob (pilot) RAF seriously injured
Sgt A F Arnold (A/G) RAF seriously injured

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1977 p 20)
2. Eyes of the Night: Air Defence of North-western England, 1940–41 By Joe Bamford, Ron Collier (Chapter 23).
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/8740: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16924582
4. 96 Squadron ORB for August 1941: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/764/20: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8384694
5. https://www.middlewich-heritage.org.uk/RAF_Cranage/raf-cranage-1941.html
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_Wales_and_West_Midlands.pdf
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbach_School

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Jan-2011 15:29	ThW	Added
12-Jan-2012 13:11	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Narrative]
23-Aug-2013 17:53	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
24-Aug-2014 14:52	Gloug	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative]
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