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Date: | Tuesday 4 March 1941 |
Time: | 15:47 |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 151 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N1794 |
MSN: | DZ-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 3/4 mile west-north-west of RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Wittering (EGXT), Peterborough, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire |
Narrative:Defiant N1794/'Q': Written off (destroyed) 04/03/1941 when the aircraft was on a training sortie (air gunnery flight training). Part of the upper wing covering detached (possibly a panel unlatched), the aircraft became uncontrollable and crashed 3/4 mile WNW of RAF Wittering at 15:47 hrs.
Crew of Defiant N1794:
F/O (33436) Peter Lee GORDON-DEAN (Pilot) RAF - killed
Sgt (137615) George Edward WORLEDGE (AG) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Brtiain, 1977 p.20)
2. Aircraft Crash Log 5 - Boulton Paul Defiant
3. ORB 151 Sqdn RAF for March 1941: National Archives (PRO Kew)
File AIR 27/1019/5:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8389520 4. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2706776/peter-lee-gordon-dean/ 5. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2433256/george-edward-worledge/ 6.
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=N3400 7.
https://aircrewremembered.com/gordon-dean-peter-lee.html 8.
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=75774 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Wittering#Second_World_War Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Feb-2008 11:50 |
JINX |
Added |
04-Feb-2012 08:55 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
14-Aug-2013 20:34 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
20-Sep-2014 07:45 |
Jixon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
19-Mar-2018 15:16 |
paddy |
Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Oct-2018 13:03 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
06-Sep-2020 07:56 |
Angel Dick one |
Updated [Location, Nature, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |