Date:	Saturday 26 April 1941
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson Mk I
Owner/operator:	21 OTU RAF
Registration:	R9611
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Llandetty Hall Farm, 1 mile from Nant-y-Bwch Station, near Tredegar. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Anson R9611 was carrying out cross-country training on 26th April 1941 when a mechanical fault, low fuel state, combined with bad weather, forced the crew of five to abandon the aircraft, south south west of Llandetty Hall Farm, 1 mile from Nant-y-Bwch Station, near Tredegar, Tal-y-Bont-on-Usk, Brecknockshire. All five made safe parachute descents. The Brecon Beacons National Trust book, however, locates the crash on the outskirts of Trefil (see link #1). Crew of R9611:

Pilot Officer Jack Harold Wetherly, Pilot (Service Number 82716) - safe Parachute descent (NCO:740917 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 20 August, 1940)
Pilot Officer J G Brown - safe Parachute descent.
Pilot Officer Garth Campbell Frew (Observer, Service Number 63087) - safe Parachute descent (NCO:978518 Commission Gazetted : Saturday 26 April, 1941)
Sergeant Butler - safe Parachute descent.
Sergeant Tuckwell - safe Parachute descent

One source states that one of the crew broke a leg in a "hard" parachute landing, but does not state which one.

1. Brecon Beacons National Park, 1995, Identification Guide Aircraft Crashes in the National Park, ID 16
2. Halley, J J, 1996, Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000 to R9999, page 165
3. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988)
4. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/507041/details/avro-anson-r9611
5. http://www.ggat.org.uk/timeline/pdf/Military%20Aircraft%20Crash%20Sites%20in%20Southeast%20Wales.pdf
6. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-May-2019 22:35	Dr. John Smith	Added
25-May-2019 10:41	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
13-Apr-2024 12:04	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]