Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I in Sedgebrook

Date & Time: Jan 9, 1942 at 1050 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden
Operator:
Registration:
AT127
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Scampton – Scampton
Location:
Sedgebrook
Lincolnshire
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 0257LT on an operation to Brest. While returning to base the following morning, the crew was forced to make an emergency landing for unknown reasons. The airplane crashed at Sedgebrook and was wrecked. All four crew members escaped uninjured.
Crew:
Sgt E. M. Price, pilot,
P/O R. N. Rayne,
Sgt R. K. Osborne,
Sgt W. Lown.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV in Sedgebrook

Date & Time: Nov 16, 1941 at 1330 LT
Type of aircraft:
Bristol 142 Blenheim
Operator:
Registration:
V5421
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Training
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Upwood - Upwood
Location:
Sedgebrook
Lincolnshire
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The crew departed RAF Upwood on a cross country exercise. Weather conditions deteriorated en route and the crew decided to abandon the airplane and to bail out. All three crew members parachuted to safety and the airplane crashed in an open field located in Sedgebrook.
Crew:
Sgt S. E. Strate, pilot +2.
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