Enclosure C - flying accident card

Enclosure C - flying accident card

Made out for Whitley from 29 OTU on 24 September 1940. Location Ben Aigan. Gives some details of crash.

1940-09-24

One page printed form with handwritten entries

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NO. 395 (H) FATAL H

FLYING ACCIDENT CARD A.M.Form 1180

Date 24 9 40 Unit 19 O.T.U. Group 6 Command B
Signal No: Y500 5354, 6505, A 1640
X- Country trng flt W
Fire [deleted] in air on impact [/deleted] Yes
22/10 Obscure 685A PR U st
C of I A11g 196/40
K 6
Aircraft WHITLEY V P5006 W
[deleted] Aerodrome or [/deleted] Place
[deleted] Home: Foreign: [/deleted] No on Ben Aigan, Morayshire
Engine: Merlin V 136941 W 136934 W
[underlined] Nature of Accident [/underlined] Dived out of clouds & hit the hillside diving for 1500’ after leaving cloud base. Totally ‘obscure’

C of I:- Flying normally at 2000’ Fire seen to break out from some part of a/c & it dived vertically into ground. “OBSCURE” A.O.C Comms

Cause F8 F9