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Date: | Thursday 27 November 1941 |
Time: | 12:15 |
Type: | Vickers Wellesley Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 47 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L2691 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 5 miles SW of Debra Sina -
Ethiopia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Wing detached in turbulance & dived into ground. Apparently caught in massive updraft during storm while crossing mountains on a mail route. The starboard main plane was badly damaged and broke away, and the aircraft broke up in mid air
Crashed at position 09.50N 39.45E.
89771 Pilot Officer J.P.S. Bazeley (RAF) (Pilot) killed. and
402198 Sergeant L.E. Bull (RAAF) (Wireless Air Gunner) killed.
Buried at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Sources:
Vickers Wellesley production list
National Archives of Australia
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Mar-2008 14:53 |
JINX |
Added |
14-May-2009 21:01 |
mick |
Updated |
11-Dec-2010 02:54 |
penguin832 |
Updated [Narrative] |
12-Nov-2018 17:49 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, Operator] |