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1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
On 29 September 1940, a mid-air collision occurred over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia. The accident was unusual in that the aircraft involved, two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF, remained locked together after colliding, and then landed safely. The collision stopped the engines of the upper Anson, but those of the machine underneath continued to run, allowing the pair of aircraft to keep flying. Both navigators and the pilot of the lower Anson bailed out. The pilot of the upper Anson found that he was able to control the interlocked aircraft with his ailerons and flaps, and made an emergency landing in a nearby paddock. All four crewmen survived the incident, and the upper Anson was repaired and returned to flight service.
==Training school and flight details==
No. 2 Service Flying Training School (SFTS), based at RAAF Station Forest Hill near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, was one of several pilot training facilities formed in the early years of World War II as part of Australia's contribution to the Empire Air Training Scheme.〔RAAF Historical Section, ''Units of the Royal Australian Air Force'', pp. 102–103〕〔Gillison, (''Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942'', p. 111 )〕 After basic aeronautical instruction at an elementary flying training school, pupils went on to an SFTS to learn techniques they would require as operational (or "service") pilots, including instrument flying, night flying, cross-country navigation, advanced aerobatics, formation flying, dive bombing, and aerial gunnery.〔Stephens, ''The Royal Australian Air Force'', pp. 67–70〕〔Gillison, (''Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942'', pp. 97, 109 )〕 No. 2 SFTS's facilities were still under construction when its first course commenced with Avro Ansons on 29 July 1940.〔〔Gillison, (''Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942'', p. 56 )〕
On 29 September 1940, two Ansons took off from the Forest Hill air base for a cross-country training exercise over southern New South Wales.〔Parnell; Boughton, ''Flypast'', p. 186〕 Tail number N4876 was piloted by Leading Aircraftman Leonard Graham Fuller, 22, from Cootamundra, with Leading Aircraftman Ian Menzies Sinclair, 27, from Glen Innes, as navigator.〔〔Ilbery, ''Hatching an Air Force'', p. 16〕 Tail number L9162 was piloted by Leading Aircraftman Jack Inglis Hewson, 19, from Newcastle, with Leading Aircraftman Hugh Gavin Fraser, 27, from Melbourne, as navigator.〔〔 Their planned route was expected to take them first to Corowa, then to Narrandera, and finally back to Forest Hill.〔Coleman, ''Above Renown'', pp. 103–104〕
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