Date:	Saturday 9 May 1942
Time:	16:00
Type:	North American P-51 Mustang Mk I
Owner/operator:	2(AC) Sqn RAF
Registration:	AG488
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Sawbridgeworth
Destination airport:	local

Narrative:
AG488 was taxying out from a northern dispersal and across the runway in use when it was struck by AG403 that was in the process of taking off. Whereas AG403 was destroyed and its pilot killed, AG488 was badly damaged and the pilot, Pilot Officer P J Willmett, only injured.

'Where the Lysanders were .....' (the story of Sawbridgeworth's airfields) by Paul Doyle, pub 1995 by Forward Airfield Research Publishing. ISBN 09525 624 05
2(AC) Sqn ORB
AIR81/14173

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Mar-2018 16:06	paddy	Added
09-Oct-2018 16:42	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
23-Dec-2018 11:51	paddy	Updated [Time, ]
13-Aug-2020 09:10	Apen	Updated [Registration, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator, ]
13-Aug-2020 09:30	Xindel XL	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
29-Nov-2020 20:00	paddy	Updated [Time, Registration, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
09-Feb-2021 15:56	paddy	Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, ]