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Date: | Sunday 31 August 1941 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 96 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N3383 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Sandbach Grammar School, Crewe Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Cranage, Middlewich, Cheshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Boulton Paul Defiant N3383: Sustained Engine failure and Crash landed in a field adjacent to Sandbach Grammar School, Crewe Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, 31 August 1941. Both crew survived, although seriously injured.
Crew:
P/O E H Jacob (pilot) RAF seriously injured
Sgt A F Arnold (A/G) RAF seriously injured
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1977 p 20)
2. Eyes of the Night: Air Defence of North-western England, 1940–41 By Joe Bamford, Ron Collier (Chapter 23).
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/8740:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16924582 4. 96 Squadron ORB for August 1941: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/764/20:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8384694 5.
https://www.middlewich-heritage.org.uk/RAF_Cranage/raf-cranage-1941.html 6.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_Wales_and_West_Midlands.pdf 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbach_School Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Jan-2011 15:29 |
ThW |
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12-Jan-2012 13:11 |
Nepa |
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23-Aug-2013 17:53 |
JINX |
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24-Aug-2014 14:52 |
Gloug |
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17-Aug-2020 21:26 |
Glog |
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