ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 150918
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| Date: | Monday 26 January 1942 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 57 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | K9863 |
| MSN: | 81 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sealand, Flintshire, Wales -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | |
On 26 January 1942, the Spitfire Mk I K9863 of Sous-Lieutenant Louis François Sylvain Ricard-Cordingley, a pilot under training with 57 OTU RAF, collided near Sealand during a training flight with Spitfire X4164 of the same unit flown by a Polish airman, Flg Off. Roman Suwalski. Both pilots were killed. Ricard-Cordingley managed to get out of his plane but, being too low, his parachute didn’t have time to open and he was killed.
Louis Ricard-Cordingley was born on 6 November 1917 in La Mulatière (Rhône). He evaded from France with Sgt Didier Béguin, from Toulouse, in a Caudron Goéland. They took off at midday on 22 June 1940 and landed at Hasten in Devonshire. He spent some times in St Athan, then went to the Franco-Belgian school in Odiham, and underwent the following training : 2 EFTS in June and July 1941, 5 SFTS from August to December 1941 and 57 OTU from 9 December 1941. He was awarded the Légion d’honneur, Croix de Guerre 39-45 with 7 palms, Médaille de la Résistance, ordre du Drapeau Rouge (USSR), Ordre de la guerre pour la patrie 2e degré (USSR), and a citation on 29 January 1942 for the Free French Air Force. He was initially buried in Hawarden, then in Brookwood.
Roman Suwalski was born on 4 November 1917 in Przechowo, Poland.
Sources:
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?6141-Richard-Cordingly
http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/client/mdh/militaires_decedes_seconde_guerre_mondiale/detail_fiche.php?ref=1817643&debut=0
http://listakrzystka.pl/?p=278960
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p001.html
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p014.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand,_Flintshire
http://www.maplandia.com/united-kingdom/england/north-west/cheshire-county/sealand/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Nov-2012 20:18 | angels one five | Added |
| 09-Mar-2015 23:56 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Location, Narrative] |
| 26-Jun-2015 10:16 | Angel dick one | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 06-Dec-2016 07:34 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2017 11:17 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jan-2021 23:16 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 24-Jan-2021 16:40 | angels one five | Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative] |
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