Date:	Sunday 7 January 1940
Time:	15:30
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk I
Owner/operator:	108 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1214
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	just beyond Bicester town near RAF Bicester, Oxfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bicester, Oxfordshire
Destination airport:	RAF Bicester

Narrative:
Blenheim L1214: Took off for Local Training flight / formation practice flying . 07/01/1940:
Engine failed on overshoot landing, and aircraft wrecked in crash landing near RAF Bicester, Oxfordshire.
During local formation practice flying the port engine cut out and the starboard engine partially failed when the pilot opened the throttles during an overshoot after an unsuccessful attempt to land. Aircraft lost height and crashed through tree tops into a field, coming to a stop in a hedge just beyond Bicester town at 15.30 hrs.
Crew:
P/O (41943) Harold Frederick MITCHINSON (pilot) RAF: Ok
Sgt (581168) Hartley Lambert BROUGHTON (Obs.) RAF: seriously injured
AC1 John WELCH (WOp/AG) RAF Ok.

1.Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999
2.National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/1773
3.http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?23493-AIR81-File-Listings/page2
4.Blenheim production list
5.ORB 108 Sqdn RAF

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Aug-2013 04:11	JINX	Added
24-Nov-2014 09:17	Apen	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
26-Dec-2015 08:37	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
07-Jan-2016 22:12	JIXN	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
06-Oct-2018 06:47	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
25-Apr-2019 22:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
22-Jul-2024 11:31	Nepa	Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator, ]