ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 169962
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| Date: | Friday 18 February 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI |
| Owner/operator: | 487 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HX855 |
| MSN: | EG-Q |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | RAF stn Ford, West Sussex, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hunsdon, Hertfordshire |
| RAF Ford, West Sussex |
Mosquito HX855/Q: Took off at 11:00 hrs for on Operation Jericho, the Amiens prison raid. 18/02/1944
Suffered an engine fire on the way to the target and feathered the propeller which put the fire out. Pilot managed to keep up with the formation for some time but eventually dropped back and restarted the faulty engine to catch up. The engine caught fire again and pilot had to jettison his bombs and turn back about 12 miles short of the prison.
Mosquito HX855/Q was hit twice by FlaK wounding Hanafin in the neck, paralysing him down his right hand side, in such pain that the navigator gave him a morphine injection. Hanafin flew back through the snowstorm and managed to land at RAF Ford. Suffered a collapsed undercarriage on landing. 18/02/1944
Crew:
F/Lt (63460) Brian David HANAFIN (pilot) RAFVR - injured
P/O (156.429) Cecil Frank REDGRAVE (nav.) RAFVR - injured
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jericho
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 December 1944 | HX855 | 487 (NZ) Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF stn Thorney Island, Hampshire, England | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Sep-2014 17:10 | Depak | Added |
| 08-Aug-2015 10:49 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2019 12:40 | Nepa | Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative, Operator] |
| 13-Nov-2021 12:08 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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