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Date: | Friday 7 September 1945 |
Time: | day |
Type: | North American P-51C Mustang Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 118 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | KH499 |
MSN: | 111-28996 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mynydd-y-glog, near Penderyn, Rhondda Cynon Taf -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Fairwood Common, Swansea, West Glamorgan, South Wales |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:North American P-51C-10-NT Mustang Ex-USAAF 44-108462. To RAF as KH499. On 7 September 1945, this Mustang was assigned to 118 Squadron and had taken off for air gunnery practice. The pilot, P/O Arund, experienced mechanical difficulties (some sources state engine failure due to overheating) and crashed whilst attempting to land on Mynydd-y-glog at around 340 metres altitude. The aircraft crashed onto a solid slab of rock, and burst into flames, but the pilot - Pilot Officer Arund was unhurt. A few small pieces of the wreck remain at the crash site
Mynydd-y-glog is a hill just east of the village of Penderyn in the northern corner of the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff in south Wales. It lies within the Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark. Its summit plateau rises to a height of 389 metres/1,277 feet at OS grid ref SN 982088, a spot marked by a trig point.
Sources:
1. Air Ministry Form 1180 Accident Card for Mustang KH499.
2. Brecon Beacons National Park, 1995, Identification Guide Aircraft Crashes in the National Park, ID 9
3. Doylerush, R, 2008, Rocks in the Cloud: High-ground Aircraft Crashes of South Wales, p.108.
4.
https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/507026/details/north-american-p51-mustang-kh499 5.
https://www.beaconstrex.co.uk/mustang-kh499 6.
http://www.ystradgynlais-history.co.uk/mustang-kh499.html 7.
http://www.ggat.org.uk/timeline/pdf/Military%20Aircraft%20Crash%20Sites%20in%20Southeast%20Wales.pdf 8.
http://www.penderynhistoricalsociety.org.uk/sites/penderynhistoricalsociety.org.uk/files/publications/Newsletter_9.pdf 9.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1944_1.html 10.
http://www.rafjever.org/118squadhistory2.htm 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mynydd-y-glog Images:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Feb-2017 19:12 |
ORD |
Added |
13-Feb-2018 14:38 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Nature, Damage, Narrative] |
16-May-2019 17:07 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
18-May-2019 12:13 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
19-May-2019 06:18 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
31-May-2021 08:46 |
Anon. |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |