ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 196705
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| Date: | Monday 17 February 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Avro Anson Mk 1 |
| Owner/operator: | 2 ANS RAF |
| Registration: | K6283 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bradnop, near Leek, Staffordshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Cranage, Cheshire |
On 17 February 1941, while on navigation training flight from Cranage near Holmes Chapel, Sgt Arthur Maelor Owen, the pilot of the Anson I K6283 of 2 SAN (School of Air Navigation) RAF, encountered cloud. He attempted to fly out of the cloud but the weather conditions were rapidly decreasing. He found a gap in the cloud which he followed, on exiting the cloud he was confronted by rising ground and no room to manoeuvre and the aircraft struck the ground at Bradnop, near Leek, Staffordshire.
At the time of the accident the wireless operator was changing over to regional control from the local frequency for Cranage so the wireless was effectively useless for aiding navigation during this period.
The aircraft hit the ground fairly level but it slid into a bank between two ditches which turned the aircraft over trapping the pilot in the then water filled ditch from which he did not escape. Both other crew survived with injuries.
Crew:
Sgt Arthur Maelor Owen (pilot, 25) KIFA
Plt Off William Pat Ferrie (navigator) WIFA
Sgt A H Judkins (wireless operator) WIFA
Plt Off Ferrie went on to become a Sqd Ldr DFC AFC and was killed in the crash of Ventura V FP612 of the Iraq CF which dived into the ground when control was lost in Iraq on 25 April 1946 killing the four occupants. He is buried in Habbaniya War Cemetery Iraq.
Sources:
1. http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/peak-district/avro-anson-k6283-bradnop/
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ejIgNXR1nk
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2169834/FERRIE,%20WILLIAM%20PAT
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradnop
5. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=53.090000&lon=-1.980000&z=12&m=w
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Jul-2017 08:41 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 25-Mar-2018 19:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Embed code] |
| 29-Nov-2018 09:01 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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