ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305913
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| Date: | Tuesday 3 June 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | V5860 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Missing - Mediterranean Sea -
 Mediterranean Sea
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Luqa, Malta |
Blenheim V5860/J: Took off for Anti shipping patrol from Luqa. Malta . 03/06/1941.
During Attacking an ammunition ship was the plane got caught in the blast from an exploding ammunition ship. The Blenheim V5860 was in the second section of an attack on a ship, and was destroyed when a delayed action bomb dropped by the first section exploded as it flew over the vessel.
Crew:
W/Cdr (39335) Neville Ernest Wetherell PEPPER DFC (pilot) RAF - killed
Sgt (580579) Thomas Eric HYDE (Obs.) RAF : killed
Sgt (551653) Leslie PICKFORD (WOp/AG) RAF - injured / PoW
Sources:
1.Blenheim production list
2.ORB 139 Sqdn RAF
3.AIR81/6755
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