When did Roald Dahl crash his airplane?

Answer 1

This is the story of Dahl's

famous 1940 crash in the desert while flying planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II. It starts with the anonymous narrator lying in a hospital bed, trying to remember who he is and why he's there. The rest of the narrative takes place in a flashback as he is slowly remembering it.

The squadron receives an order that there are a large number of Italian planes parked close together. Six Hurricanes (a type of plane) are to attack at dusk. After Dahl

and the others take off, he devotes quite a few paragraphs to describing what the pilots actually do. In the midst of this reverie he is interrupted by the call that enemy aircraft have been spotted. Luckily they pass without recognizing them and the RAF pilots proceed on to their target. They find the parked Italian aircraft and being strafing them (diving and shooting with their machine guns). Dahl's

plane is hit by ground anti--aircraft

fire, and despite his belief that he can make it back to base, he crashes nose--first

into the desert. He manages to climb from the burning aircraft and collapses on the sand to await rescue. He is badly burnt and his nose is pushed in. Eventually he is found by other Allies and taken to safety: "I don't remember much more, except that I was shoved about a lot, and someone kept saying 'Take it easy.' I believe someone had some morphia."

Answer 2

This is the story of Dahl's famous 1940 crash in the desert while flying planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II. It starts with the anonymous narrator lying in a hospital bed, trying to remember who he is and why he's there. The rest of the narrative takes place in a flashback as he is slowly remembering it.

The squadron receives an order that there are a large number of Italian planes parked close together. Six Hurricanes (a type of plane) are to attack at dusk. After Dahl and the others take off, he devotes quite a few paragraphs to describing what the pilots actually do. In the midst of this reverie he is interrupted by the call that enemy aircraft have been spotted. Luckily they pass without recognizing them and the RAF pilots proceed on to their target. They find the parked Italian aircraft and being strafing them (diving and shooting with their machine guns). Dahl's plane is hit by ground anti–aircraft fire, and despite his belief that he can make it back to base, he crashes nose–first into the desert. He manages to climb from the burning aircraft and collapses on the sand to await rescue. He is badly burnt and his nose is pushed in. Eventually he is found by other Allies and taken to safety: "I don't remember much more, except that I was shoved about a lot, and someone kept saying 'Take it easy.' I believe someone had some morphia."

Answer 3

He was supposed to fly to meet his squadron, the 80 squadron, but he was given the wrong coordinates. He had to force a landing. He hit a rock when he was on the ground and his plane crashed nose-first.He ran out of gas

Answer 4

Roald Dahl crashed his airplane in 1940 during World War II while serving as a Royal Air Force pilot in Libya. Dahl's airplane crash resulted in severe injuries to his head, back, and nose, and he later wrote about the experience in his book "Going Solo."

Answer 5

In the desert and he was blinded and he broke his skull.

Answer 6

In the Libyan desert.