It's a Brigand..!

Sunny Chow's detailed analysis concluded that it's a Bristol Brigand. Read all about it in his web site at:

and it's NOT the Brigand VS 838 OB-A belonging to 45 Sqadron piloted by Sgt. Pilot Sidney Hayler, whose crash was in the Cameron Highlands (that was why it took the rescue party some 5 days to reach him) whilst the villagers at the Lenggong crash site only took 4 hours.

The aircraft actually belonged to 84 Sqn RAF Tengah, which was using the playing cards symbols on tails of their aircraft to this day. This was pointed by Mr Laurence Bean, now resident in Malaysia, who was very observant to notice the Club sysmbol just below the RAF fin flash in the picture below.

Tailfin of the crashed Brigand lying on the ground.    The same tailfin, image rotated 90 deg CCW, and identifying spots labelled. Credits to Sunny Chow.

Playing card symbols were usually carried on the tailplanes of 84 Squadron aircraft, as seen most clearly in this picture of a Brigand firing rockets at a communist target in Malaya:

Picture courtesy of Peter Weston

So, we know now that the crashed aircraft was from 84 Sqn. But can we find answers to these new questions:

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