Date:	Friday 29 September 1939
Time:	14:30
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk I
Owner/operator:	104 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1341
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Penrhos, Caernarvonshire, North Wales -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bicester, Oxfordshire
Destination airport:	RAF Penrhos, Caernarvonshire

Narrative:
Blenheim L1341: Took off for training flight /navigation exercise. 29/09/1939
Port engine cut and the aircraft overshot when being landed at RAF Penrhos during a navigational training flight. It struck a stone wall and ran into a boggy area at 14:30hrs. beyond the airfield boundary.
Blenheim L1341: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 29/09/1939 when crashed on landing at RAF Penrhos. According to the official Air Ministry report on the accident (File AIR 81/1558): "Blenheim L1341, 104 Squadron; aircraft accident, 29 September 1939; P/O A M Paape and AC.2 R J Ellicott injured; Sgt G Ryder uninjured".
Crew:
P/O (36192) Arthur Mitchell PAAPE (Pilot) RAF slightly injured.
AC2 (552585) Reginald John Spurway ELLICOTT (WOp/AG) RAF slightly injured.
Sgt (560893) Gerard RYDER (Obs.) RAF unhurt.

1.Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 p 8)
2.National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1558:
3.https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16359460
4.GWGC

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Jun-2019 19:01	Dr. John Smith	Added
25-Jun-2019 05:50	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, ]
19-Jul-2024 13:07	Nepa	Updated [Time, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator, ]