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Date: | Monday 30 January 1939 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 53 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L4836 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Blenheim L4836: Written off (destroyed) just eleven days later, on 30/01/1939 when hit telegraph wires after engine failure and crashed, RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire. Contemporary newspaper headlines (see link #6) state that the pilot "did not hear the horn" (presumably a reference to the stall warning horn). Pilot - Pilot Officer Peter Francis Gordon Jameson (flying solo) - was killed. According to the official Air Ministry announcement in "Flight" magazine (February 9, 1939 page 140 - see link #4):
"FLYING ACCIDENTS
THE Air Ministry regrets to announce the following accidents: —
P/O Peter Francis Gordon Jameson (flying solo) lost his life in an accident which occurred at Odiham on January 30 to an aircraft of No. 53 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999 (jmaes J. Halley, Air Britain)
2.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm 3.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?314-RAF-officer-deaths-1-1-29-3-9-39 4.
https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1939/1939%20-%200368.PDF 5. Londonderry Sentinel, Londonderry, Northern Ireland 31 January 1939 at
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/irish-newspapers?keywords=odiham&page=7 6. Northern Whig - Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 31 January 1939 at
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/irish-newspapers?keywords=odiham&page=7 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Mar-2018 18:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
06-Oct-2018 05:07 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |