ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340941
| Date: | Sunday 13 June 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | FP232 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bay of Biscay -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Hamworthy RAF Station |
| Hamworthy RAF Station |
Catalina FP232 took off from RAF Station, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, UK at approx. 19:00 on June 13, 1943, to carry out a patrol in Bay of Biscay. It should have returned to Base on the afternoon of June 14. The flying boat failed to return.
Sources:
Missing with no known grave / by Alan Storr
Poole Flying Boats Celebration
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