I will look into what I can find on BA250, but doubt I can add anything.
There are some advances on the two Blenheims that we know about and where wreckage still remains.
The first is Z7763 (crew Allen, Lemmer, Lloyd and Eliastam). Thanks to the efforts of the Ebo Trust, who got all the ducks in a row, and satisfied the CWGC requirements so that Memorial Stones could be placed in the Nanyuki War Cemetery, and their names to be erased from the Alamein Memorial for those missing in action. The Ebo Trust got family members there and there was a very moving ceremony organised by the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK). What became very apparent was the effect of having your loved ones 'missing in action'. The plane simply vanished -believe to have crashed in thick cloud, but they had no idea where -the Aberdares? Mt. Kenya? The families really did not know whether, one day their son might just walk through the door or they were genuinely killed.
Tropic Air (based out of Nanyuki Airstrip) kindly gave a flight at cost for the family members. It flew along the track that Z7763 was last known to have flown on, before getting lost. We then retraced the various sitings cited in the Court of Inquiry to the final crash site. The weather was vaguely similar to what it is believed it was like on the 23rd July 1942, albeit not as thick -just representative.
There are various bits of footage from SABC -all in Afrikaans with some interviews in English (see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0paVSiF3VvQ). There is some good footage of the crash site itself, and makes it very apparent why the plane was never found. The Ebo Trust produced a small booklet for the occasion (see
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%...216657&o=OneUp) which gives a fairly full account of the whole saga.
The second plane is another Blenheim high on the Aberdare Mountains. This we 'found' when hunting for some Harvards that crashed up there during the 1950s. We were shown this site by some honey hunters, and with my limited experience, determined fairly quickly that this was a twin engined plane. It is confirmed by John Romain as a Blenheim. The next step is to get the ID on the crashed plane so that we can confirm the crew. Whilst it is not good for the moorland, there was a big fire up there in January which has exposed much of the wreckage which is scattered over an area about 500m x 200m.
Any help on anything on Blenheims in Kenya would be gratefully received. Bits and pieces are coming out of the woodwork, for example some kids (now old men!) who post war who raced go-carts and had a Blenheim seat for their go-cart. It came from one that crashed on their farm. Another crashed on a ranch called Suguroi, when the owner tried to rescue the crew, but could not get anywhere near the plane because of the flames. The fire then went on to burn a vast area of Laikipia and fences had to be cut to allow cattle to escape the advancing flames.
Another crash documented in a diary happened close to Ol Kalau and the crew were rescued by the formidable Daisy Griffin and her daughter Mrs. Rooken-Smith. The pilot was a fellow called Frank Brindlay.
Tom