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| Date: | Friday 5 February 1943 |
| Time: | 06:45 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 1 OADU RAF |
| Registration: | HF673 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Celtic Sea, 4 miles west of Portreath airfield, Cornwall -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The Wellington III HF673 of 1 OADU took off on 5 February 1943 from Portreath for a ferry flight to Gibraltar (first step to India) but a fire broke out aboard shorty after taking off and it crashed in the sea 4 miles west of the airfield at 0645 hrs.Tthe St Ives lifeboat was launched but on reaching the area they only found a large patch of oil.
Crew (all killed):
Sgt Amar Chandra De 917035 (pilot, from India)
Sgt Roy McKenzie 930769
F/O Herbert L. Martin 126881
Sgt George Scott 978133
Sgt Ernest H J Grove 1316856
Sources:
http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/04901.php
http://web.archive.org/web/20130117050446/http://www.rafdavidstowmoor.org:80/pages/crash_log/crashlog43.html (no more online, see https://archive.is/Nev7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRH_Portreath
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=50.271389&lon=-5.263333&z=11&m=w
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Nov-2017 06:26 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
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