ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 153782
This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can submit corrected information.
| Date: | Friday 26 January 1945 |
| Time: | c. 12:00 |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb |
| Owner/operator: | 1 AGS RAF |
| Registration: | AR320 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lodge Farm, New Hedges, Temby, Pembrokeshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Pembrey, Pembrokeshire |
| RAF Pembrey |
On 26 January 1945, the Spitfire Vb AR320 of 1 Air Gunnery School RAF was carrying out an air gunnery nonoperational traing and cine attack exercise, when it crashed at approx 1200 hours at Lodge Farm, New Hedges, Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The pilot, Warrant Officer Bernard James Skelly RAAF, was killed.
A Court of Inquiry into the accident stated ; “ Eye witnesses stated that at approx 1200 hours on the 26th January, the aircraft was seen to crash approx 100 yards from the main Temby-Narbeth road in the vicinity of New Hedges. The sky was overcast and very hazy after a snowfall. The aircraft was flying north at a height of about 50/100 feet, not fast and looked in difficulties. It dived and struck the ground. The Court thought that the Pilot had lost his way, and had throttled back to locate himself, and had either stalled the aircraft or was too low to recover from a slip.”
WO Skelly is buried in the Pembrey (St Illytd) Churchyard, Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was born on the 5th April, 1918 in Australia, the Son of Bernard James and Katherine Mary Skelly, and the husband of Nancy Pearl Skelly, of 9, Murchison Street, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Sources:
http://www.laugharnewarmemorial.co.uk/page60.htm
https://www.awm.gov.au//catalogue/research_centre/pdf/rc09125z023_1.pdf
http://www.spitfires.ukf.net/p021.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenby
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Mar-2013 13:25 | angels one five | Added |
| 22-Jun-2013 19:09 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
| 17-Sep-2013 08:13 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Apr-2015 10:41 | Erectus | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2017 19:03 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
Corrections or additions? ... Edit this accident description
The Aviation Safety Network is an exclusive service provided by:
Quick Links:
| ASN Home | Send Correction / Feedback |
| FSF Home | Disclaimer | Copyright |
| Contact Us | Privacy Policy |
| Press / Media |
CONNECT WITH US:
©2024 Flight Safety Foundation