ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 140568
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Date: | Friday 24 December 1943 |
Time: | 13:15 |
Type: | Airspeed Oxford Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 410 (Cougar) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | BM837 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Winter Hill, near Bolton, Lancashire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Acklington, Northumberland |
Destination airport: | RAF Coleby Grange, Lincolnshire |
Narrative:Oxford BM837: Took off at 12:00 hrs from Doncaster for cross-country flight to Elswick near Preston. 24/12/1943
(Or also Flying from Acklington in Northumberland to Coleby Grange near Lincoln.)??
Visibility poor and low clouds but met reports said it would clear. Using map with route marked, he calculated he had reached an area where he could let down to 150 feet, but he was off course.
(He was somehow 90 miles off course.) He began descent through cloud, and crashed into a the northern slope of Winter Hill near Bolton, Lancashire at 13:15 hrs.
He destroyed the plane and suffering dangerous injuries.
Crew:
F/Lt (J/15807) Martin Anthony "CY" CYBULSKI DFC (pilot) RCAF - injured
Sources:
1.
http://laituk.org/Oxford%20BM837.htm 2.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/maycontaintracesofnuts/4222491995/ [photo of crash site]
3.
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/pennines/airspeed-oxford-bm837-winter-hill/ 4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)
5.
http://www.daveweb.co.uk/whvol2.pdf 6.
http://aircrashsites.co.uk/air-crash-sites-5/airspeed-oxford-bm837-on-winter-hill/ Media:
Flight Lieutenant M Cybulski (left) and Flying Officer H Ladbrook of No. 410 Squadron RCAF, with their damaged Mosquito Mk II at Coleby Grange, 27 September 1943
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Dec-2011 06:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
20-Jan-2012 12:53 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
30-Jan-2012 08:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
18-Sep-2014 19:09 |
weeks |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
24-Dec-2015 11:06 |
Iwosh |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative] |
28-Jul-2017 21:09 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
01-Aug-2017 21:31 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
01-Aug-2017 21:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
17-Dec-2021 18:57 |
Nepa |
Updated [Time, Narrative, Operator] |
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