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| Date: | Wednesday 7 August 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page HP.42E |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | AS981 |
| MSN: | HP.42/4 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1931 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Moresby Park, Cumberland -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Made a forced landing in the Dissington Moor after an engine fire which spread to the airframe causing the ammunition to explode and burned out. Ex G-AAUC "Horsa" Imperial Airways, impressed by RAF.
Sources:
Air International
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