Incident Vickers Wellington Mk Ic T2846,
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Date:Monday 13 October 1941
Time:22:00 approx
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:101 Sqn RAF
Registration: T2846
MSN: SR-?
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Beeck, Wegberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 18:38 hrs for an operation to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by the 1. & 3./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 643.
All six were taken prisoner of war.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=T2846
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
27 December 1941 Z1115 101 Sqn RAF 6 near Wegberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
1 August 1942 BJ841 101 Sqn RAF 5 Titz, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
18 August 1942 BJ844 101 Sqn RAF 1 North Sea off English coast w/o
25 August 1942 Z1594 101 Sqn RAF 2 Ougrée, Seraing, Liège w/o
28 August 1942 BJ698 101 Sqn RAF 6 North Sea mis
28 August 1942 X3754 101 Sqn RAF 4 Cheratte, Visé, Liège w/o
5 September 1942 BJ891 101 Sqn RAF 5 North Sea off Friesland mis
7 September 1942 BJ769 101 Sqn RAF 5 North Sea off Terschelling, Friesland w/o
20 September 1942 BJ689 101 Sqn RAF 6 Novion-Porcien, Ardennes w/o
21 September 1942 X3815 101 Sqn RAF 3 Spandet moor, near Ribe, Syddanmark w/o

Revision history:

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