ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 168888
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| Date: | Wednesday 10 December 1941 |
| Time: | 16:15 approx |
| Type: |  Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 4 FPP ATA |
| Registration: | AK575 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | Presumed Irish Sea -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | RAF Speke |
| RAF Prestwick (PIK/EGPK) |
Kittyhawk AK575 had been flown to Speke on 4/12/41 to participate in a Press Day being held on the following day, the 5th, featuring US-built aircraft in the RAF.
Late in the afternoon of the 10th the aircraft departed for return to Scottish Aviation at Prestwick piloted by an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot, First Officer Joseph Stuart Wiley of No. 4 Ferry Pilot Pool, RAF.
The plane was never seen again and is presumed to have ditched or crashed in the Irish Sea.
Joseph Wiley of the USA was declared missing, presumed dead, on 16/12/41, and this day is recorded on the Runnymede Memorial as the date of his death.
Sources:
ATA Casualties
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?790-1st-Officer-Joseph-Stuart-WILEY-ATA-Query-%28maybe-for-Chris-Pointon-%29
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Aug-2014 02:35 | angels one five | Added |
| 19-Aug-2014 02:50 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 12-Dec-2014 19:54 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 06-Jan-2015 07:51 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 14-Feb-2021 16:20 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 25-Nov-2021 14:07 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities] |
| 25-Nov-2021 14:07 | TigerTimon | Updated [[Time, Other fatalities]] |
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