ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 60602
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| Date: | Thursday 2 April 1992 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  General Dynamics EF-111A Raven |
| Owner/operator: | 42nd ECSqn /27th TFWg USAF |
| Registration: | 66-0056 |
| MSN: | A1-74 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Barton Hartshorn, near Finmere, Buckinghamshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire (UHF/EGUA) |
| RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire (UHF/EGUA) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed and destroyed April 2, 1992 at Barton Hartshorn, near Finmere, Buckinghamshire due to a fuel duct failure, which caused a fuel leak, followed by fire and explosion in the engine bay. According to eyewitness reports: "The aircraft went in to a flat stall and crashed into the parking lot. The airfield Crash Trucks quickly extinguished the resulting fire." No casualties to either crew member: Pilot (Capt Jeff Coombe) and WSO (Capt David Gevenish) who had ejected using the escape module and survived.
The main body of 66-0056 came down onto the car park of the Dalgety Animal Food plant on the trading estate/ industrial unit at Barton Hartshorn, near Finmere, Buckinghamshire. There was property damage - between 15 to 20 parked cars were incinerated in the fireball that resulted from the crash impact - and the wall of the building was scorched, but nobody was hurt. There was some speculation that the F-111 was attempting to make an emergency landing at the former RAF Finmere Airfield (closed July 1945) which is adjacent to where the F1-11 actually came down. The escape module with the two crew on board, came down in a field some two miles away from the main crash site/body of the aircraft.
Sources:
1. http://web.archive.org/web/20170921070650/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/F_111/F-111.htm
2. http://www.f-111.net/t_no_A.htm
3. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1966.html
4. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?61330-EF111-crash-in-bucks
5. http://s839.beta.photobucket.com/user/Stav_98/library/Dalgety%20EF111%20Crash
6. http://www.raf-upper-heyford.org/Mishaps.html
7. http://letsrollforums.com//showpost.php?p=232952&postcount=10
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Feb-2013 06:33 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2015 20:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 20-Jun-2015 20:45 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 13-Apr-2016 19:12 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-Apr-2016 19:45 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Apr-2021 10:58 | Adell | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |
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