ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 192856
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| Date: | Wednesday 15 January 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fleet 16B Finch II |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) |
| Registration: | 4514 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 4 mi N of Maidstone, ON -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | 7 EFTS |
On 15 January 1941 Flt Lt Allan Hallett Fairweather of Vancouver and LAC David Richard Axler of Brantford, a student pilot, were killed when their Fleet Finch II 4514, a training plane from the 7 EFTS RCAF of Windsor, crashed on the farm of Eugene Chittle four miles north of Maidstone, 15 miles southeast of Windsor, Ontario. The RCAF men were on a training flight and about 500 feet up when the plane went into a spin. The plane straightened out upside down and crash-landed in an open field, tore through the earth for about 80 yards and crashed into a fence. Both men were dead when help arrived.
Sources:
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/virtualmem/photos/2686348
Lethbridge Herald newspaper, 15 January 1941
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2849336/FAIRWEATHER,%20ALAN%20HALLETT
http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_4500_4549_detailed.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Jan-2017 11:18 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 31-Dec-2017 08:47 | TB | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2023 09:31 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]] |
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