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Date: | Sunday 3 October 1954 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Auster AOP.6 |
Owner/operator: | 1958 Flt/661 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | TW527 |
MSN: | 1907 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ide Hill, 5 miles SW of Sevenoaks, Kent, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Auster AOP.6 TW527, 1958 Flight/661 Squadron RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 3/10/54 when Hit over power lines (HT wires) and crashed at Ide Hill, Kent during a message dropping sortie. No reports of any injuries to the pilot.
The crash location of Ide Hill is a village within the civil parish of Sundridge with Ide Hill, in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It stands on one of the highest points of the sandstone ridge about five miles south-west of Sevenoaks, at approximate co ordinates 51.247°N, 0.129°E
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.164 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.52)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.94
4.
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=1800 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ide_Hill 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._661_Squadron_RAF#Post-war Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
17-Apr-2012 21:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
15-Aug-2012 08:02 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
23-Apr-2020 22:16 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
24-Dec-2020 10:23 |
Jixon |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
24-Dec-2020 10:35 |
JEPA |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |