ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 174350
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Date: | Wednesday 8 April 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa |
Owner/operator: | 53 OTU RAF |
Registration: | P8366 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Car park at Minehead Station, West Somerset -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Llandow, Glamorgan |
Destination airport: | RAF Llandow |
Narrative:In collision with Spitfire P8249 of the same unit during air combat practice.
Crash-landed in the southern side of the car park at Minehead Railway Station and wrecked.
Declared Category E (write off) and sent to Air Service Training. No further record.
Sgt R.H. Orlebar survived with injuries.
Sources:
Spitfire production list and other.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Mar-2015 09:09 |
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08-Mar-2015 09:19 |
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Updated [Narrative] |
20-Jun-2015 09:41 |
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Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport] |
06-Feb-2021 00:22 |
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Updated [Time, Location, Phase] |
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