Hampden L4139 at Finningley Airfield.
On the 26th of July 1940 while landing at Finningley at 23.00hrs following a training flight this aircraft's undercarriage collapsed.
This was the first of many OTU losses in Yorkshire of the War. The aircraft sustained damage but was later converted into ground instruction airframe and coded 2170M.
Pilot - P/O Kenneth R K Smettem RAF (41877). Of Barrow in Furness, Lancs.
Smettem was killed on 31st August 1940 after he had been posted to 50 Sqdn. He was pilot of Hampden L4079 which was shot down crashed in Holland on Ops. He and his crew are
buried in Nijmegen at Groesbeek War Cemetery.