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Date Posted: 28/02/05 14:38:29
Author: George Simeon
Subject: Success

The following was received and the answer was obtained in 10 days, there have been many other successes regarding aircraft crashes, post them here for an answer like this one!

Hello John
I am researching an air crash that happened during world war 2 at Long Ashton near Bristol.
I know it happened between 1940 & 1944 but no matter how I have tried I can get no where with it.

I believe that it was "One of ours" that went down. I have spoke with people that were near to the crash and know the aircraft was breaking up before the crash because I have had confirmation from people who found aircraft parts in their gardens.

My problem is I do not know where to look for information. A RAF pensioner that I spoke to mentioned you and suggested that you may be able to point me in the right direction.
I am sorry to bother you with my problem but would be very grateful for any thing big or small that may help.
My kindest regards
George Simeon
Gloucestershire

By George, George, this is a tall order!

Firstly no one in official circles (MoD, RAF Museum, AHB etc) will help you without a date, serial number, place (Long Ashton) or type of aircraft.

Suggest, go to the library in Bristol and ask to see micro fiche files of newspapers for this period, remembering there may be 1500 newspapers printed in this time! Try your local newspaper archivist and even the local council historian or the local police, or coroners office. Also try the church nearest the scene and check the gravestones the military headstones are usually in a quiet corner your local churchwarden should assist you on this.

'If' you can get the date of accident and aircraft type you should be on a winner let me know how your progress is going, if nothing comes up say in 10-12 weeks come back to me for another approach.

Best regards

John


Hello John
Thanks to you I now have all the details I was looking for.
It was a Halifax LL126 of 1662 Conversion Unit Squadron of Bomber Command that went down on November 21st 1944. It had taken off from RAF Blyton with a Polish aircrew of seven. At 1930 hours the aircraft having passed over a built up area went into a steep dive and crashed in a field along side All Saints Churchyard in Long Ashton. Regrettably all seven aircrew perished. Remarkably due to skillful flying of the Polish crew who steered the aircraft away from local houses and a school there were no civilian casualties.
My grateful thanks and regards
George

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[> Re: Success -- John Cooper, 28/02/05 14:46:50

The quickest track down was from a chap in Canada, whose father was killed in an aircrash in Ceylon in 1958, he was 8 at the time of the accident. Within 24 hours details of the accident was obtained through a contact in Sri Lanka that went to Australia that went to another contact in Canada via email, the people in Canada by an odd quirk of fate only live 20 miles apart and have since met over dinner.

Again, these coincidences crop up from time to time and completed unrelated to each person, another person came through to say that his father was killed on the same aircraft and bearing in mind there was only 6 people aboard, I find this coincidence weird to say the least.


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