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1931
1931 was a formative year for 604. The year opened with Flight Lieutenant
Fogarty executing the Squadron‟s first serious accident.
On the 16th February Pilot Officer M.V de Stag of 605 Squadron force-landed Wapiti
J9096 at Hampstead Heath. The following day, Flight Lieutenant Fogarty
took-off to return the machine to Hendon, but unfortunately stalled and
crashed the aircraft on to the roof of a house in Hampstead. The machine
was wrecked, but Fogarty happily escaped uninjured. Squadron Leader
Dore‟s account is somewhat more amusing:
„Someone (de Stag) had force landed on an open space nearby (in
Hampstead), and Joe volunteered to fly the Wapiti out lightly loaded.
Just failing to clear the houses with his usual skill as a crazy flying
pilot, Joe put the Wapiti down on a doctor‟s roof, and climbed into
the nearest bedroom. Malicious tongues said that a pretty daughter
was surprised out of her sleep by the crash and still more so by the
intrusion of the debonair Joe through the window. It made a good
story, but is, I think, untrue,‟ more‟s the pity!
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