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| Date: | Friday 19 January 1940 |
| Time: | 13:55 |
| Type: | Dewoitine D.500 |
| Owner/operator: | CIR Armée de l'Air |
| Registration: | n° 57 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Aulnat BA 745, Puy-de-Dôme 63 -
 France
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | |
| Aulnat airfield, Puy-de-Dome |
On 19 January 1940 sous-lieutenant Henri Roger Raymong Houël of Centre d’Instruction au Renseignement (CIR, Reconnaissance Training Center) of Aulnat took off at 13:55 hrs for a training flight with the Dewoitine 500 n° 57. During the fight he had engine troubles and was blinded by engine coolant streaming from the engine. He managed to complete a circuit and landed on the airfield. The landing was hard and the aircraft turned at 30° and entered the airfield neutral zone, where sergent Henri Claudien Joseph Blanchard was preparing to take off for a similar training flight with the Potez 25 n° 1935. The Dewoitine collided the Potez and both planes were damaged beyond repair, but only Houël was slightly hurt while Blanchard escaped unhurt.
Sources:
Carton 2B143 des archives de l’Armée de l’Air (French Air Force accidents in January-February 1940)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewoitine_D.500
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_a%C3%A9rienne_745_Aulnat
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jan-2017 07:36 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 01-Jan-2020 17:25 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator, ] |
| 25-Jul-2024 21:09 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
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