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Seafire Mark XVII 1949
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Does anyone have any information about this incident? Thanks T |
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Do you know if this was in County Donegal?
Bill
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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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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 T X |
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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 :?
T X |
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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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