ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 138833
Last updated: 20 May 2013
This information is added by users of ASN. ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can submit corrected information.
| Date: | 26-MAY-1943 |
| Time: | 16:50 |
| Type: |  North American P-51 Mustang I |
| Operator: | 2 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | AG623 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Kimbridge, St Albans Head, Dorset -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Thruxton |
26 May 1943: 2 Squadron, RAF - three Mustang 1s (AG623, AG550 and AP210) were in close formation flying as part of "Operation Asphalt", a "Ranger" sortie. After having twice postponed Operation 'Asphalt', it was carried out. 'Asphalt' was a Ranger sortie to carry out offensive operations on rail movements in the area Rennes-Laval-Le Mans-Chateaubriand-Blain-Redon-Rennes. At 1650 hours ten Mustangs took off bad weather from Thruxton, Hants.
The bad weather consisted of a bank of sea fog in the Channel and along the South Coast. The three 2 Squadron pilots who were lost were part of a formation of 10 aircraft that was heading out for France and were ordered to climb above the fog but the three pilots failed to climb fast enough or high enough
Flying Officer Miller (in AG550/XV-U) F/O Hirst (in AG623/XV-W) and Pilot Officer Mcleod (in AP210/XV-Y) part of the ten strong squadron, flew line abreast in fog into a hill at Kimbridge, St Albans Head, Dorset. All three aircraft destroyed, all three pilots killed
The remaining seven Mustang 1's landed at Thruxton safely.
Sources:
http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/dorset/dorcrash.html
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=80732
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?5271-Operation-Ashfelt-25-5-43/page2&s=89eab0bd7ad9b4059362af4934385014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Alban's_Head
Related books
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Sep-2011 12:12 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 12-Nov-2011 23:34 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Source] |
Corrections or additions? ... Edit this accident description