Date:	Tuesday 18 October 1938
Time:	day
Type:	Vickers Wellesley Mk I
Owner/operator:	148 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K7716
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Dunmow Park, Great Dunmow, Essex, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Stradishall, Suffolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Vickers Wellesley Mk.I K7716: Written off (destroyed) 18/10/38 in a "head on" mid-air collision with Wellseley K7714 (also of 148 Squadron, RAF), over Great Dunmow, Essex. All three crew of Wellseley K7716 were killed:
Crew:
Sgt Reginald Prosser (RAF) killed
Sgt Wilfred Courtney Cunnington (RAF) killed
Act Sgt James Crane Irwin (RAF) killed

All three crew of the other Wellseley (K7714) were also killed.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 63)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
3. https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/313304-airfield.html#post3908499
4. http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/Chronicle/1900-1945.htm
5. Burnt out wreckage: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/gutted-vickers-wellesley-bomber-framework-two-raf-vickers-news-photo/3351595#19th-october-1938-gutted-vickers-wellesley-bomber-framework-two-raf-picture-id3351595
6. https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/mid-louth-independent/20160907/281599534944520#
7. http://www.putpic.com/image/3961/8826432

Vickers Wellseley Mk.I K7716, when with 76 Squadron, RAF Finningley, Yorkshire in April 1937

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Mar-2018 19:35	Dr. John Smith	Added
19-Mar-2018 20:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
23-May-2024 17:17	Nepa	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator, ]