Having a few beers tonight, & one of the Older Lads, that I went up in a
de-Havilland Dragon-Rapide (G-AKIF) with at Duxford the other week asked if I’d asked anyone on here about a (supposedly) local Hurricane-crash (?)
His Gt.Uncle told him, that as a 12 year old kid, he’d visited ‘the’ crash-site….
(Apparently, this ‘Hurricane‘ came down near ‘Coaley Lane’ Snettisham, N.W. Norfolk, in a field, not too far from the Snettisham bridge/A.149)
He reckons it wasn’t due to enemy-action……
(presume, oxygen-failure, or such-like ????????)
Can anyone on (or visiting) this forum shed any further light, as to the A/c, serial No / Sqdn, pilot / date / details ?????????
He reckons it was “early-War” & claims it to be around 1940/41 (ish ?)
BTW, not to be confused with two other nearby ‘crashed/crash-landed’ Warbirds, such as the 1931 Fairey III-F, or B.17-F ‘Black-Heart-Jnr’ (Aug ’43) both of which happened close by !
By: Hornchurch - 14th November 2007 at 01:41
Most likely to be Hurricane N2539 of 213 Sqn crashed 5th March 1940 at Ingoldisthorpe, the adjoining village.
P3162 was at Terrington St John
Jeff
(A belated) Cheers for the info’ Jeff,
I’ve just sent you a P.M.
By: Kiteflyer - 2nd November 2007 at 08:32
Most likely to be Hurricane N2539 of 213 Sqn crashed 5th March 1940 at Ingoldisthorpe, the adjoining village.
P3162 was at Terrington St John
Jeff
By: Tom_W - 1st November 2007 at 22:29
Am I right in thinking it was P3162? Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum performed the dig and have the engine on display.
Tom
By: paulmcmillan - 31st October 2007 at 11:17
Snettisham losses I have in time frame
11.2.41 Hampden I X3007 144 Sqn – Abandonded
1.4.41 Blenheim IV Z6022 235 Sqn – Crash landed
Could the ‘Hurricane’ be the Hampden – Both start with H!
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