Patrick Adair BLACK

BLACK, Patrick Adair

Service Number: 558
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: 1 December 1917, place not yet discovered
Home Town: Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Flying Accident), Amberley, Queensland, Australia, Amberley, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 12 February 1941, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld
C of E Plot Section A Grave A8661, Ipswich General Cemetery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flying Officer, 558
Date unknown: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 558

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

On the 12th of February 1941 Wirraway A20-121 collided head on with A20-138 on a runway at Amberley Aerodrome - both aircraft burnt and totally destroyed. Cause listed as carelessness and lack of vigilance as the aircraft taking off struck another aircraft taxying back in head on. Aircraft and crew were part of Number 3 Service Flying Training School

Flying Officer Patrick Adair Black 558 and LAC Raymond Alexander Humphry 406250 were killed in aircraft A20-121 and they are commemorated in Ipswich Cemetery, Queensland

Flight Sergeant Nigel Watson 1945 and LAC Douglas Porter Scott 406229 were killed in aircraft A20-138 and they are commemorated on the Queensland Cremation Memorial in Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane (LAC Scott was originally listed as injured but died the same day)

(NB: Wirraway A20-121 is incorrectly listed as A20-201 on some records - that aircraft was destroyed in a separate incident on 19 January 1941)

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