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Date: | Friday 4 March 1938 |
Time: | |
Type: | Hawker Hind Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 57 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K5471 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | field at Heathcote, Leamington -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Little or no information is available |
Narrative:Hind K5471: Took off on a Training flight /NAVEX exercise, 04/03/1938
Route from RAF Upper Heyford to RAF Usworth and return to base.
Suffered an engine failure and had to force land, aircraft turned over.
Crew:
P/O (37337) Geoffrey Middleton WYATT (pilot) RAF :Ok
AC1 ???? S LAWRENCE (AG) RAF : OK
'PLANE CRASHES NEAR LEAMINGTON
Pilot Forced Down When Engine Stalled In an attempt to make a forced landing in a ploughed field at Heathcote,
Leamington. yesterday afternoon, an R.A.F. plane turned completely upside down and the two occupants bad miraculous escapes. The machine, a Hawker light bomber. as reported in our late editions yesterday. Was piloted by Pilot Officer Wyatt who was accompanied by Aircraftman S. Lawrence, both of Upper was forced down when the engine stalled at 3.000 feet. and the machine would probably have landed Without mishap it not for a large crater in the ground which he apparently did not notice. The 'plane suffered little damage."
Sources:
1."Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 05 March 1938
2.http://www.luftwaffe.cz/spanishcw.html
3.ORB 57 Sqdn RAF
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