ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 150281
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| Date: | Wednesday 16 October 1940 |
| Time: | 21:25 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
| Owner/operator: | 311 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | L7844 |
| MSN: | KX-T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Oosterwolde, Friesland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF East Wretham |
Delivered to 311 Sqn, coded 'KX-T'. Missing during raid on Kiel (Germany) 16.10.40. Four of the six crew were killed. They rest in the Oosterwolde cemetery:
P/O Hubert Jarosek (KAS);
P/O Bohumil Landa (KAS);
Sgt Otto Jirsak (KAS);
Sgt Karel Klimt (KAS),
Sgt Emanuel Novotny (PoW);
Sgt Augustin Sestak (PoW).
Aircraft took off at 18:50 hours and was reported shot down in the Zuijder Zee by the captain of a Handley Page Hampden nearby. The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Becker, Uffz. Staub & Fw. Matschuck, who had taken off from Deelen airfield at 20:59 hrs in a Dornier Do 17 Z-10.
Sources:
https://fcafa.com/2012/01/19/wellington-aircraft-of-311-sqn/
https://en.valka.cz/topic/view/77
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0876&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 June 1941 | T2990 | 311 Sqn RAF | 5 | Kostverloren polder near Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Oct-2012 12:41 | Nepa | Added |
| 09-Mar-2013 21:04 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Aug-2013 21:19 | JINX | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |
| 22-Aug-2013 11:03 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
| 24-Sep-2020 08:54 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Jun-2022 22:01 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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