ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 16009
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| Date: | Thursday 26 December 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington DWI Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 1 GRU RAF |
| Registration: | L4391 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bizerte, Bizerte Governate, Northern Tunisia -
 Tunisia
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Bizerte, Bizerte Governate, Northern Tunisia |
Crashed on take-off for ferry flight at Bizerte, Tunisia on 26/10/1940. All six crew bailed out and survived. However, while most sources (including the ORB) give the location of the crash as Bizerte (in northern Tunisia), but Twenty-first Profile #9, p.285, gives it as Bordeaux (in France), and states that the Germans may have recovered the wreckage and copied it (see link #2)
Sources:
1. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1940/archives/crash-of-a-vickers-wellington-in-bizerta/]
2. http://www.sirbarneswallis.com/files/VickersWellingtonManual-References.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Mar-2008 15:35 | JINX | Added |
| 26-Feb-2012 05:50 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 15-Jan-2017 22:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Jan-2017 22:24 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport] |
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