Accident Vickers Wellington Mk X HZ438,
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Date:Tuesday 29 June 1943
Time:02:22 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration: HZ438
MSN: BH-J
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Biezenstraat, Kortrijk-Dutsel, Flemish Brabant -   Belgium
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Ingham, UK
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Paul Zorner of the 3./NJG 3 (detached to II./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.

Target: Köln, Germany
Takeoff time: 22:45
Crew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HZ438

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HZ438
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
4 May 1942 Z1183 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 5 sea west of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog, Schleswig-Holstein w/o
9 July 1942 Z1489 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 1 North Sea 16 miles off Great Yarmouth w/o
25 November 1942 Z1495 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 2 edge of barracks camp near Guurtjeslaan 16, Bergen, Noord-Holland w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
30-Dec-2011 14:08 Uli Elch Added
15-Nov-2018 19:00 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
05-Feb-2020 20:20 stehlik49 Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
08-Nov-2022 06:59 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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