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| Date: | Friday 8 September 1939 |
| Time: | 22:10 |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 602 (City of Glasgow) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | K9965 |
| MSN: | 177 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Balerno, 12 km south-west of Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Abbotsinch, Glasgow |
Spitfire K9965: Lost height in turn after night take-off for Night training flight. 08/09/1939
Flew into ground near Balerno, a suburb of Edinburgh, situated 12 kilometres southwest of the city centre.
Pilot:
Sgt (802600) John Martin Cullen BRYDEN (pilot) RAFVR - killed.
R.I.P.
Sgt Bryden took off at 22:10 on his first night flight in a Spitfire. He was seen taking off into the darkness, banking at about 500 feet and then the Spitfire dived at full throttle into the ground, creating a fireball visible for miles around. This crash was 602 Squadron’s first fatality of the War.
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Sources:
1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p001.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balerno
3. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939a.htm
4. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?17617-What-was-the-first-Spitfire-to-crash-in-Scotland
5. https://www.602squadronmuseum.org.uk/history/roll_of_honour.php
6. http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves-ftopic541-0-asc-15.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Feb-2011 15:09 | angels one five | Added |
| 18-Feb-2011 15:12 | angels one five | Updated [Date, ] |
| 25-Dec-2011 04:55 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative, ] |
| 10-Jan-2012 16:05 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, ] |
| 13-Jan-2012 01:48 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, ] |
| 22-Jan-2012 19:40 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative, ] |
| 07-May-2012 08:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 30-May-2012 00:45 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, ] |
| 02-Nov-2012 13:19 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 03-Nov-2012 02:58 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 22-Oct-2013 14:57 | JINX | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Narrative, ] |
| 08-Nov-2013 23:30 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Nov-2013 07:04 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Operator, Narrative, ] |
| 23-Apr-2014 08:59 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Narrative, ] |
| 29-May-2015 10:56 | Angel dot comma | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Nov-2015 08:30 | JINX | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Nov-2015 13:06 | JINX | Updated [Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Narrative, ] |
| 07-Jan-2016 20:44 | Angel dick one five | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 23-Jan-2016 14:33 | JINX | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, ] |
| 19-Jul-2017 09:58 | quattro | Updated [Location, ] |
| 19-Dec-2017 01:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 19-Dec-2017 01:32 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, ] |
| 13-Feb-2018 21:45 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative, ] |
| 07-Feb-2021 05:18 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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