Vickers 408 Wellington IA crash, Feb 21, 1940, Wisbech Ca...
Vickers 408 Wellington IA accident on February 21, 1940 near Wisbech Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom with no fatalities. Cause: The aircraft ran out of...
- Date: February 21, 1940
- Aircraft: Vickers 408 Wellington IA
- Location: Wisbech Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The aircraft ran out of fuel in bad weather on the return from operations.
A Wellington IA of No 99 Squadron RAF, serial P9219, took off from Newmarket on a shipping search off Heligoland. On return in bad weather it came down in an orchard at Walsoken, near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.