Date:	Thursday 5 January 1950
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk 35
Owner/operator:	109 Sqn RAF
Registration:	VP199
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Mickle Fell, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Coningsby, (EGXC)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Mosquito VP199: Took off at 11:17hrs on an unusual mission-to carry out research into cosmic rays. 05/01/1950
Flight routing Coningsby-Cape Wrath-Dalcross-Dundee-Coningsby. Estimated Time of Return of 15:17 hrs. Last radio report from the aircraft was "off northern Scotland" (Presumably Cape Wrath, as per intended route). Missing/destroyed when flew into a hillside in cloud at Mickle Fell, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham. No trace of its wreckage has ever been found.
Crew:
F/O (58766) John Frederick NYFFELER (pilot) RAF - killed
F/Lt (200966) Kenneth John Alan HARRIS (nav.) RAF - killed

Mickle Fell is a mountain in the Pennines, the range of hills and moors running down the middle of Northern England. It has a maximum elevation of 788 m (2,585 ft).[1] It lies slightly off the main watershed of the Pennines, about 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of Cross Fell. After Cross Fell, Mickle Fell is the highest Marilyn within the North Pennines

1.Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain
2.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
3.ORB 109 Squadron RAF: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8421165
4.Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings.
5.Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983.
6.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickle_Fell

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