Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI PZ235,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49209
 
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Date:Monday 5 February 1945
Time:01:30
Type:Silhouette image of generic MOSQ model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI
Owner/operator:418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF
Registration: PZ235
MSN: TH-M
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:de Haart, Aalten, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Hartford Bridge, Hampshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Mosquito PZ235/M: Took off at 20:58 hrs for a night patrol near Osnabruck. 04/02/1945
Missing. Was attacking a site in Holland when it was shot down. 05/02/1945
Crew:
F/Lt (J/20992) Mike EWASCHUK (pilot) RCAF - killed
F/O (164.791) Robert Macaulay Morrison STRATTAN (nav.) RAFVR - killed

Sources:

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/canadaairwar/canadaairwar1945.pdf
3.ORB 418 Sqdn RCAF

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
12 November 1943 HJ829 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF 2 near Évreux, Eure. w/o
1 November 1944 NS850 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF 0 RAF stn Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England w/o
21 February 1945 RS604 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF 0 Off Dutch coast near The Hague. w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
11-Nov-2009 03:43 NePa Updated
30-Jan-2012 09:17 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
30-Jan-2012 09:18 Nepa Updated [Departure airport]
24-Feb-2013 12:20 fritzelblitz Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
16-Apr-2013 05:38 Nepa Updated [Operator, Narrative]
09-Oct-2014 14:34 Unitex Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
14-Aug-2015 11:05 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]
05-Sep-2018 04:52 Nepa Updated [Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]
08-Mar-2019 15:25 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
04-Feb-2020 17:33 A.J.Scholten Updated [Location]
17-Nov-2020 21:08 Anon. Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Source, Narrative, Operator]
23-Jun-2022 13:21 TigerTimon Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source]
24-Jun-2022 09:37 Nepa Updated [Date, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]

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