Accident Hawker Audax Mk I K7346, Friday 28 January 1938
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Date:Friday 28 January 1938
Time:
Type:Hawker Audax Mk I
Owner/operator:6 FTS RAF
Registration: K7346
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Kidmore End, Sonning Common, Oxfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: En route
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Woodley, Reading, Berkshire
Destination airport:RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire
Narrative:
Hawker Audax Mk.I K7346, 6 FTS, RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 28/1/38 when overturned in forced landing at Kidmore End, Sonning Common, Oxfordshire, while lost. Pilot - LAC Herbert Edward Griffiths (aged 22) - was killed

Sources:

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain 1976 page 60)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidmore_End

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
21-Feb-2008 08:14 JINX Added
13-Nov-2016 18:07 Dr.John Smith Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
09-Mar-2018 22:27 Dr. John Smith Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
21-Nov-2018 19:03 Nepa Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator, ]

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