ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 165255
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Date: | Wednesday 5 April 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 11 OTU RAF |
Registration: | LN482 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rothersthorpe, Northampton, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakley, Buckinghamshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Wellington LN482 Crashed during a training exercise after a mechanical failure.
All occupants died in the crash. 5.4.1944
Crew:
Sgt Joseph Ronald DOWLING (542574) Air Gunner
Sgt John Archibald FREEMAN (1396618) Air Bomber
F/Sgt Norman Horace HEWETT (425571) Pilot
F/Sgt Colin James MOWAT (427090) Navigator
P/O Donald McTEER (157510) Wireless Op
Sgt Ernest Victor WALLER (1151544) Air Gunner
Sources:
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/pupils-mark-70th-anniversary-of-northampton-plane-crash-that-killed-six-people-1-5985917 http://rafabedford.blogspot.nl/2014/04/wellington-memorial-service.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Apr-2014 16:33 |
gerard57 |
Added |
06-Jan-2021 21:32 |
Giggs |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |
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