ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 143960
Last updated: 23 May 2013
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| Date: | 19-JUN-1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth II |
| Operator: | Stn Flt Coltishall RAF |
| Registration: | N6835 |
| C/n / msn: | 82084 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | North Sea, 0.4 km north of Southwold, Suffolk -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Farnborough, Hampshire |
| RAF Coltishall, Norfolk |
19/06/1941 Tiger Moth N6835 Mk.II Place of accident: North Sea, 0.4 km north of Southwold, Suffolk, England. Sgt. Vaclav Brejcha, 257 Squadron, was killed. The machine was on the strength of the Station Flight of the RAF squadron base in Coltishall. The machine came back from a flight from Farnborough to Coltishall, and was last seen at the above place of accident. Causes of the accident have not been elucidated. Brejchová's body was washed up sea at Southwold 18.7 1941, and buried on 7.21 1941 in the cemetery in Scottow in Norfolk
Sources:
Source: Aggressive in Defence - The Aircraft of RAF Coltishall 1940 - 2006 by R.H.Vernon 2005
http://flymag.cz/article.php?id=6171
http://cz-raf.hyperlink.cz/Bio/brejcha.html
http://aces.safarikovi.org/biography/cz/cz/brejcha.html
http://www.dehavilland.ukf.net/p820.htm
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/o/302/9/0
http://www.bbm.org.uk/Brejcha.htm
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Feb-2012 13:38 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 05-Apr-2013 02:21 | n | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 05-Apr-2013 08:13 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
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