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Old 09-07-20, 01:32 PM
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Default Seafire Mark XVII 1949

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Does anyone have any information about this incident?

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Old 09-07-20, 02:42 PM
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Do you know if this was in County Donegal?

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Old 09-07-20, 02:48 PM
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This is the only thing I can find which might be related.

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Going on info from link posted this may be the plane.
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From the original photo I assumed it was on a monument or cairn but have found a dfferent view.

Photo: © Copyright Kenneth Allen

Shore Road Culdaff


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Old 10-07-20, 08:10 AM
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Hi all

Thank you my friend took the pic on holidays a few years ago and meant to look at what happened ill send him the link and the pic

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There are still more questions than answers , there is no mention of fatalities so why have a commemorative plaque about a plane making a crash landing ?

Also this was post war , so was it a 'routine' flight or training exercise ?

There is no first name given , if you are going to 'remember' someone why not put their full name ?
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The crash sites also in Ireland :?

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There are still more questions than answers , there is no mention of fatalities so why have a commemorative plaque about a plane making a crash landing ?

Also this was post war , so was it a 'routine' flight or training exercise ?

There is no first name given , if you are going to 'remember' someone why not put their full name ?
As a man who has family in Donegal and visited on many occasions I can tell you that if something remotely interesting occurs in the rural areas (most of it) it’s worthy of a plaque and story recital down the local pub for the next 30 years... perhaps longer for a really good story like this.

I’ve no knowledge of this incident but being 1949 the Seafire has crash landed in ROI so not so routine I’d imagine ending up there.
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OK , found some info about the incident in "Fly Navy: The View From the Cockpit 1945-2000" by Charles Manning.(pages 17 & 18)

"The main runway at RNAS Lossiemouth was being extended , their Fireflies and Seafires had to be moved to RNAS Eglinton on the shores of Lough Foyle in Northern Ireland , and Anthorn Ferry Flight got the task."

NB. Weather - Low cloud and drizzle with thick layer of cloud up to a significant height.

"It wasn't long before I heard on the radio that the Fireflies , who had taken off first , were in a spot of bother . Still in cloud , they had flown past Eglinton who gave them an erroneous radio bearing which took them even further away."

"A few minutes later , among all the Firefly chatter , a Seafire called running short of fuel and contemplating a forced landing somewhere in Donegal , over beyond Eglinton in the Irish Free State . Shortly afterwards , he said he was down OK in a potato field , unhurt".


Unfortunately there are no further details about Flight Lieutenant Whittaker.


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