ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 78976
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| Date: | Tuesday 7 August 1917 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Sopwith Pup |
| Owner/operator: | RNAS |
| Registration: | N6453 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | HMS Furious, off Scapa Flow, Orkneys -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | HMS Furious, off Scapa Flow, Orkneys |
| HMS Furious, off Scapa Flow, Orkneys | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
At Scapa Flow HMS Furious is underway again as Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning and his team continue test flights with the ‘Pups’. Again flying N6453, now with a Lewis gun on the tripod and rope grab loops under the wings and fuselage for the deck party, Dunning makes the world’s second landing on a moving ship at 2pm.(above) He is not happy when it rolls backwards into the deck hatch combing damaging the elevators. He orders the pilot out of N6452 which is ready to take-off and goes up for another run. This time he arrives over the foredeck slightly too high and touches down too far forward. Although the deck party rush to hold him back he waives them away intending to go around again.
Opening up the engine it chokes, the aircraft stalls and falls over the starboard side of the ship. An updraft caught his port wing, throwing his plane overboard. Knocked unconscious, he drowned in the cockpit before the ship can heave to and get a boat to him. The stopped propeller is hardly damaged but the near vertical impact with the water had squeezed the cowling around the engine like a piece of foil.
Sources:
1. https://www.kingstonaviation.org/sopwith-day-by-day/1917.html
2. http://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/dunning-e.h.-edwin-harris
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2757788/dunning,-/
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1917a.htm
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Harris_Dunning
Media:
Squadron Commander E H Dunning's Sopwith Pup veering off the flight deck of HMS FURIOUS during his second and fatal attempt to land on the carrier while underway, Scapa Flow.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 31-Oct-2010 10:30 | harro | Added |
| 09-Feb-2019 00:55 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Registration, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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