LAC N Agnoni from Bombay

Vickers Varsity Bomber Trainer

Crashed on night Monday April 25th 1955/ Tuesday April 26th 1955

Pilot and 3 on grund killed (woman and 2 children)

Serial is….. (took a bit of time)

WF426 of 2ANS

The W/O date on UK Serials is wrong for this. And the correct date is 26th April as it ‘crashed after midnight’

. Anything exciting to see sticking out of the fjords?

Look for Slartibartfast’s Signature ?

Over on another forum…..

Can anyone identify a four-spoke RAF WW2 period aircraft wheel with the number:

AH10020

I’m sure the owner would be pleased to know!

if it is off a Spitfire will it be in the book?

There could be a number of reasons why he was ‘wearing no parachute’

a) It was still in the plane on fire/damaged
b) It fell off him when he bailed out
c) It got caught up in plane and he preferred to end it quickly….

I actually never took the statement

“Fidler was wearing no parachute and he fell into a field near Bachy” to mean he didn’t have a parachute in the aircraft.. Rather it was not used on bailout…

Most accounts have the prototype Seagull V (Walrus) crashed and lost in Gibraltar harbour (no fatalities). [Co-author of [I]

To avoid looking this up Serial K4797 ex ‘N-2’ Pilot Lt D C V Pelly

Friday Dec 23rd 1938

Sub-Lieutenant John Frederick Repington Collins RN Pilot Killed
Acting Sub-Lieutenant Peter Noble Boxer RN Missing (Killed)
Lieutenant Francis Myrddin Griffiths RN Slightly Injured

Aircraft was from 714 Flight, HMS Manchester

Accident occurred near Ernakulam, Tavancore State.

Walrus was alighting near Cochin Harbour when it struct some telephone
wires across the harbour backwaters. Crashed into shallow waters

“Hold until relieved. Hold until relieved”

RIP Richard Todd

There is a mention elsewhere of Bovey Tracey being the location of the incident, (quite a long way from Lydford), however both locations had railways. There also seems to have been a third aircraft involved?

Pilots details was registered at Lynford when bodies found (this normally happens in the same locallity/registration district) … The Bovey Tracey location is based on what 3rd pilot reported.. But they were all lost at time descending through cloud and thats probably why they hit the ground…. So location was speculative even in 1940