Incident Dewoitine D.500 n° 57,
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Date:Friday 19 January 1940
Time:13:55
Type:Dewoitine D.500
Owner/operator:Armée de l'Air CIR
Registration: n° 57
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Aulnat BA 745, Puy-de-Dôme 63 -   France
Phase: Landing
Nature:Training
Departure airport:
Destination airport:Aulnat airfield, Puy-de-Dome
Narrative:
On 19 January 1940 sous-lieutenant Henri Roger Raymong Houël of Centre d’Instruction au Renseignement (CIR, Reconnaissance Training Center) of Aulnat took off at 13:55 hrs for a training flight with the Dewoitine 500 n° 57. During the fight he had engine troubles and was blinded by engine coolant streaming from the engine. He managed to complete a circuit and landed on the airfield. The landing was hard and the aircraft turned at 30° and entered the airfield neutral zone, where sergent Henri Claudien Joseph Blanchard was preparing to take off for a similar training flight with the Potez 25 n° 1935. The Dewoitine collided the Potez and both planes were damaged beyond repair, but only Houël was slightly hurt while Blanchard escaped unhurt.

Sources:

Carton 2B143 des archives de l’Armée de l’Air (French Air Force accidents in January-February 1940)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewoitine_D.500
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_a%C3%A9rienne_745_Aulnat

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Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
19-Jan-2017 07:36 Laurent Rizzotti Added
01-Jan-2020 17:25 stehlik49 Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]

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