ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 74097
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| Date: | Friday 8 January 1943 |
| Time: | 01:37 |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 54 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | BA194 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Crunklaw Farm, near RAF Charterhall, Berwickshire, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Charterhall, Berwickshire |
| RAF Charterhall |
Blenheim BA194: Took off for Night Training flight. 08/01/1943
During exercise circling a beacon at night, Blenheim BA194 spun into the ground at Crunklaw Farm. Pilot and his navigator were killed. The weather was bad and the aircraft may have been subject to icing.
Blenheim BA194 was being flown by Richard Hillary who was retraining as a night-fighter pilot after recovering from severe burns to his face and hands incurred when his Spitfire was shot down during the Battle of Britain.
The aircraft is believed to have stalled and spun when orbiting over RAF Charterhall while awaiting another
Blenheim to take off and join in a Ground Control Interception (GCI) exercise.
The weather was cold, with low cloud and flurries of rain. The Controller on the ground called on the R/T asking if Hillary was "happy". The reply was : "Moderately. I am continuing to orbit." Moments later the sound of high revving aircraft engines was heard by those on the airfield, followed by the sound of a crash. The low cloud over the aerodrome was lit up by the flash of an explosion nearby.
The accident was probably the result of airframe ice accretion, and the situation would not have been helped by the difficulty that Hillary was known to be having in handling the controls of an aircraft owing to his physical injuries.
Crew:
F/Lt (74677) Richard HILLARY (pilot) RAFVR - killed.
Sgt (1336052) Kenneth Wilfred Young FISON BA ACA (radar observer) RAFVR - killed.
R.I.P.
Richard Hillary was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, and Kenneth Fison was buried at Seaford Cemetery.
Sources:
1.Richard Hillary, author David Ross, pub. by Grub Street.
2.https://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Hillary.htm
3.Blenheim production list
4.CWGC
Revision history:
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| 27-Apr-2010 19:52 | angels one five | Added |
| 09-May-2010 20:47 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Phase, Narrative] |
| 29-Dec-2010 04:59 | angels one five | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Oct-2011 02:05 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 03-Jan-2012 06:12 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Jan-2012 21:53 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
| 04-Jan-2012 22:04 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 17-Jan-2012 11:22 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 23-Jan-2012 00:41 | angels one five | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Dec-2013 20:44 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Jan-2014 17:44 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 05-Apr-2014 09:14 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 24-Jun-2014 21:00 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 11-Aug-2014 16:54 | Taylor | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 25-Dec-2014 07:58 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 26-Jan-2015 08:33 | Ing Edcker | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 12-Apr-2015 02:59 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 12-Apr-2015 07:33 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 20-Apr-2015 04:48 | Angel dot comma | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Apr-2015 04:11 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 27-Apr-2015 08:44 | Taylor | Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 27-Apr-2015 10:44 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 27-Apr-2015 15:06 | Angel dot comma | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Apr-2015 04:52 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 10-May-2015 10:42 | Angel dot comma | Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 10-May-2015 20:05 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-May-2015 06:27 | Angel Dick one | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 11-May-2015 20:09 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 12-May-2015 07:14 | Angel Dick one | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-May-2015 08:19 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-May-2015 12:47 | Angel Dick one | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-May-2015 01:52 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-May-2015 09:06 | Angel dick one | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 21-May-2015 10:41 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 21-May-2015 14:30 | Angel dick one | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 16-Jun-2015 02:49 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 18-Jun-2015 16:57 | angel dick one | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
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