Date & Time:
Jul 29, 1942 at 1516 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden
Operator:
Registration:
AT113
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Test
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Balderton - Balderton
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
4
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
While being tested in readiness for the Saarbrücken operation, the airplane went out of control and crashed in a field located 3 km southeast of RAF Balderton. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/L Lyall Basil Burman Price, pilot,
Sgt Idris Hughes, wireless operator,
Cdt Geoffrey Hughes,
Cdt Keith Rollason Couzin Wood.
Crew:
S/L Lyall Basil Burman Price, pilot,
Sgt Idris Hughes, wireless operator,
Cdt Geoffrey Hughes,
Cdt Keith Rollason Couzin Wood.
