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Date: | Tuesday 21 October 1941 |
Time: | 00:30 |
Type: | Avro Manchester I |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5783 |
MSN: | OF-V |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Friskney, Lincs., 12 km SSE Spilsby -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed in forced landing due to fuel exhaustion on return from raid on Bremen at 0030 on marshland at Friskney some 8 miles south-west of Skegness. This was the second Manchester incident involving this crew in a little over a month. No injuries were reported.
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Gordon Herbert Hartley RAF 754106 (Officer: 122056 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 09 June, 1942))
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Appleyard RAF
Navigator : Sergeant John Lorimer Neville Canham RAF 581438 (Officer:50577 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 19 January, 1943)1942)
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant H P Dean RAF
Wireless Operator : Sergeant J Baker RAF
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Clifford Mayland DFM RAF 993680
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Robert George Watson "Bob" Gross RAF 993302
Sources:
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft P1000 - R9999, published 1996
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Jan-2012 06:42 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
14-Feb-2019 19:53 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Narrative] |
15-Feb-2019 10:31 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
22-Dec-2019 09:45 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
20-Oct-2023 17:33 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Operator, Departure airport, Operator]] |