ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144180
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Date: | Tuesday 26 January 1960 |
Time: | |
Type: | Auster T.7 |
Owner/operator: | Intermediate Flt AAC Centre |
Registration: | WE591 |
MSN: | 3734 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 4 miles from Andover, Hampshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | AAC Middle Wallop, Hampshire (EGVP) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The propeller came off due to fracture of the shaft during climb out from a practice engine failure after take off from Middle Wallop, Hants. It landed in a ploughed field four miles from Andover and turned over. Both crew - Pilots S/Sgt "Hutch" Hutchings and S/Sgt "Red" Meaton - escaped uninjured.
Sold 12/10/1961 to Beagle Aircraft Ltd; rebuilt as Beagle A.61 Terrier 2 with new c/no. B.604. To G-ASAK 26/06/1962, to F-AZTJ Blois le Breuil area, France 14/2/2005
Sources:
1.
http://www.auster.ukf.net/p37.htm 2.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1960.htm 3.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130717113810/http://daveg4otu.tripod.com:80/hancrash.html [photo of wreckage]
4.
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=142287 5.
http://austerhg.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1597 Media:
G-ASAK (ex-WE591, and still marked as such) at Luxembourg-Findel (ELLX) on Aug 25 2003
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Mar-2012 13:38 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
21-Aug-2013 08:06 |
Masen63 |
Updated [Source, Narrative, Plane category, ] |
03-Sep-2013 18:27 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Embed code] |
05-Feb-2020 22:56 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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