ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 2143
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| Date: | Friday 23 October 1936 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Hawker Audax |
| Owner/operator: | 7 FTS RAF |
| Registration: | K3072 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Near RAF Peterborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Peterborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Audax I K3072, 7 FTS, Peterborough: Written off (destroyed) in a collision with Hawker Hart K3128 in a formation take-off and dived into ground, at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Pilot Acting Pilot Officer William Dycer Coppinger (aged 22, and a Canadian citizen) was killed. The pilot of Hart K3128 - Acting Pilot Officer Patrick John Shaw Shaughnessy - unhurt. According to a contemporary announcement in "Flight" magazine (October 29, 1936, page 447)
"The Air Ministry regrets to announce that Acting P/O William Dycer Coppinger lost his life as the result of a collision in the air which occurred at Peterborough on October 23, between two aircraft of No. 7 Flying Training School, Peterborough. Acting P/O Coppinger was the pilot and sole occupant of one aircraft. The pilot and sole occupant of the second aircraft, Acting P/O. Patrick John Shaw Shaughnessv, is safe".
Sources:
1. Air-Britain The K File The RAF of the 1930s
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm
3. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1936/1936%20-%202936.PDF
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Feb-2008 02:19 | JINX | Added |
| 14-Jul-2013 03:08 | JINX | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 13-Nov-2017 21:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Nov-2017 21:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-Nov-2017 21:37 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-Nov-2017 21:38 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 07-Dec-2017 17:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport] |
| 03-Nov-2018 14:58 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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