Date & Time:
Apr 6, 1942 at 0737 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden
Operator:
Registration:
AT226
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
North Luffenham - North Luffenham
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
0
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
While returning to base following an operation over Cologne, the airplane ran out of fuel. The crew made an emergency landing on a bombing range at Grendon Underwood. All four crew members escaped uninjured. Convinced they had landed in enemy territory, the crew promptly set fire to the airplane.
Crew:
Sgt Henry Charles Weeks, pilot,
P/O David Huntly Johnson, observer,
Sgt S. Rickard, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Gowland, rear gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Henry Charles Weeks, pilot,
P/O David Huntly Johnson, observer,
Sgt S. Rickard, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Gowland, rear gunner.
Probable cause:
Fuel exhaustion.
