ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 203596
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| Date: | Friday 29 May 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Westland Lysander IIIA |
| Owner/operator: | 161 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | V9595 |
| MSN: | MA-V |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Location: | le Grand Malleray -
 France
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Tempsford |
The pilot of the put the aircraft down in a field near the hamlet of le Grand Malleray, some twenty kilometres north of Chateauroux, in Unoccupied France. When the time came to take off John Mott found that the Lysander had stuck fast in boggy ground, and was unable to leave. All attempts to destroy the aircraft by fire failed, and what was left of it was removed by the Germans and exhibited in their museum of captured enemy equipment at Nanterre, near Paris,
until they destroyed the museum during their retreat, in the summer of 1944.
Pilot: Plt Off A.J. Mott - arrested by Vichy police then escaped and returned to UK. Passenger (from UK): MI9 agent Wireless Operator Alex Nitelet - ex Aér.Mil Belge - network PAT - escaped.
Sources:
Aircraft lost on Allied Force’s Special Duty Operations
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Dec-2017 17:14 | Red Dragon | Added |
| 02-Nov-2018 17:47 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
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