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Date: | Sunday 4 August 1940 |
Time: | 06:45 |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N1435 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | near Staxton Wold, Staxton, East Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Driffield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:(KN-O) Unable to land at 'dromes (covered in mist) the aircraft force landed in a field, short of fuel half a mile E of Staxton Wold returning from the Ruhr
39904 F/O William Alan Stenhouse RAF Pilot ok
P/O Robert Butler Macgregor RAF 2nd Pilot
746840 Sgt Claude Lionel Geoffrey Hood RAFVR Observer ok
551597 Sgt John Burrow RAF wireless operator/air gunner ok
632374 Sgt Harold Davies RAF air gunner ok
Sources:
Information from the Flying Accident Card.
Pilot's Log Book copies and & 77 Squadron records.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Aug-2008 23:23 |
Anon. |
Added |
28-Sep-2011 03:37 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
07-May-2013 09:08 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |