Accident Hawker Audax Mk I K5210,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 2305
 
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Date:Monday 31 January 1938
Time:day
Type:Hawker Audax Mk I
Owner/operator:11 FTS RAF
Registration: K5210
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Barnack, near Ufford, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: Approach
Nature:Training
Departure airport:RAF Wittering, Northamptonshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 31.1.38: Engine failed during forced landing practice, stalled off turn for forced landing & spun into ground at Barnack, near Ufford, Lincolnshire.

Crew:
Pilot: Acting Pilot Officer Trevor Kearsley Goss Dudley RAF (aged 20) killed.
Passenger: Acting Pilot Officer Peter Robert Burton-Gyles injured

According to a contemporary report in "Flight" magazine (3.2.38 page 116 see link #3)

"Acting P/O Trevor Kearsley Goss Dudley lost his life in an accident which occurred at Ufford, Lincs, on January 31 to an aircraft of No. 11 F.T.S., Wittering, Northants. Acting P/O Dudley was the pilot of the aircraft and Acting P/O Peter Robert Burton-Gyles, a passenger, was slightly injured"

Sources:

1. Air Britain The K File The RAF of the 1930s
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
3. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1938/1938%20-%200328.PDF

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
19-Feb-2008 05:49 JINX Added
07-Oct-2009 21:26 JINX Updated
16-Feb-2018 21:35 Dr. John Smith Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Mar-2018 22:33 Dr. John Smith Updated [Narrative]
25-Nov-2018 14:20 Nepa Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]

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