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| Date: | Wednesday 9 August 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Miles Martinet TT Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 51 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | NR502 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | field Cottage Farm, Little Blakenham, near Ipswich, Suffolk, England -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Twinwoods, Bedfordshire |
Martinet NR502: Took off for a Training flight /drogue towing. 09/08/1944
Crashed at 11:30hrs, while drogue towing, at Cottage Farm, Little Blakenham, near Ipswich, Suffolk. Pilot was attempting a forced-landing due to engine failure and struck some high-tension cables on his approach to field. The aircraft crashed and burnt out at Little Blakenham Suffolk.
Crew:
F/Sgt (Aus.40110) Maxwell Alan MAINE (pilot) RAAF - Seriously injured
LAC (1337491) William Irvine George MITCHELL (TTOp) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1.https://www.awm.gov.au/
2.ORB 54 OTU RAF
3.CWGC
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