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Date: | Monday 13 October 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 6 ANS RAF |
Registration: | RP387 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Lichfield, Fradley, Staffordshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Lichfield, Fradley, Staffordshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Lichfield, Fradley, Staffordshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington Mk X RP387, 6 ANS (Air Navigation School): Written off 13/10/1952. The crew was completing a local training sortie at RAF Lichfield, Fradley, Staffordshire. During the approach completed in IMC conditions, the pilot-in-command deactivated the automatic pilot system and decided to continue manually under VFR rules. In heavy rain falls, he did not realize that the aircraft was losing height when it crashed in a field short of runway threshold, and collided with a tree. Two crew members - Sergeant L Bahal and Pilot Officer C Cooke - were injured, while the third occupant was killed.
Crew fatality:
Pilot Officer Francis Patrick PURCELL, RAF = killed in service 13/10/1952
Causes: Wrong approach configuration on part of the crew.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.135 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.301
3. 6 ANS ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/3/1952 to 31/12/1953: National Archives (PRO Kew) AIR 29/2300/4 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7163213 4.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/nwcrashes1945-52.htm 5.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-619-wellington-x-raf-lichfield-1-killed Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
15-Mar-2017 22:38 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
19-Nov-2018 21:57 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
25-Mar-2021 23:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Mar-2021 10:27 |
Froome |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
27-Mar-2021 17:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport] |