ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 1537
Last updated: 2 January 2021
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Date: | 08-MAR-1942 |
Time: | c. 14:30 |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 10 AGS Royal Air Force (10 AGS RAF) |
Registration: | N1811 |
C/n / msn: | 287 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Location: | Carr Lane Walney about 200 yards south of Beach Crescent, Barrow-in-Fu -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:I observed the aircraft fall from low overcast cloud with insufficient height to recover. It struck the wires and the embankment of the dyke and exploded. My Brother and I visited the crash site on the next morning. The airframe was being loaded onto a trailer.
Sgt Tadevsz Krol ( Polish Air Force ) and Sgt Charles Lambert ( Royal Aux. Air Force ), both killed in a flying accident. R.I.P.
Sources:
RAF Casualties 1942
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Feb-2008 23:41 |
JINX |
Added |
20-Apr-2015 05:10 |
Jixon |
Updated [Operator, Source] |
04-May-2018 14:43 |
arobert 2@aol.com |
Updated [Date, Time, Location, Narrative] |
23-Aug-2018 02:59 |
angels one five |
Updated [Date, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
23-Aug-2018 03:09 |
angels one five |
Updated [Location, Narrative] |