ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 220935
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| Date: | Wednesday 21 February 1917 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 |
| Owner/operator: | CFS RFC |
| Registration: | 6390 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RFC Upavon, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RFC Upavon, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire |
| RFC Upavon, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
21.2.17: Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 No.6390, Central Flying School, Royal Flying Corps, RFC Upavon. Written off (destroyed) when damaged in landing attempt, spun and crashed, RFC Upavon, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. Pilot - 2nd Lt James Grieve (aged 22, on attachment from the 3rd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment) - was killed. According to the aircraft accident record card for R.E.8 No.6390 (see link #3):
"Court of Inquiry 87/7954
4/3/17
Flying accident. Bad landing. machine became uncontrollable, got into a flat spin and crashed. Court of Inquiry was of the opinion that the accident was caused through a bad attempt at landing which resulted in pilot landing heavily on the wheels of the undercarriage, which sheared off. Whilst pilot was making another attempt at landing, one of the wheels flew off and hit the propeller, which broke off and hit a tail boom resulting in the machine becoming uncontrollable"
According to a contemporary report in "Flight" magazine (March 1, 1917 page 203 - see link #4)
"Fatal Accidents
AN inquest was held at the Central Flying School, Upavon, on February 22nd, on Sec. Lieut. J. Grieve. It was stated that he was practising landing, and was in the air in a fourth flight when a part of one of the landing wheels of his machine was seen to fly off. Instead of falling clear, it got caught in the blades of the propeller, the engine being running, and the propeller was smashed to pieces. One fragment severed the tail boom of the aeroplane, and the machine, which was then nearly a thousand feet up, fell to earth in a spinning nose-dive, the pilot being killed at once."
Sources:
1. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1917.htm
2. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/373888/grieve,-james/
3. http://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/grieve-j.-james
4. Flight magazine (March 1 1917 page 203): https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1917/1917%20-%200203.html?search=John%20Libby%20Fry
Media:
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 No.6390 in 1916
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jan-2019 16:32 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 23-Jan-2019 00:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 23-Jan-2019 09:13 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
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