Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I into the North Sea: 4 killed
Date & Time:
Apr 26, 1940
Registration:
L4092
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Scampton – Scampton
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Scampton on a mine laying mission in the Kiel Bay. En route, it crashed in unknown circumstances into the North Sea. No trace was found.
Crew:
F/O Derick Paul Woodrow Rowan-Robinson, pilot,
P/O Courtenay Aubrey Weeks, observer,
Sgt Arthur Francis James, wireless operator,
LAC Thomson Hogarth, air gunner.
Crew:
F/O Derick Paul Woodrow Rowan-Robinson, pilot,
P/O Courtenay Aubrey Weeks, observer,
Sgt Arthur Francis James, wireless operator,
LAC Thomson Hogarth, air gunner.