ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 58460
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| Date: | Tuesday 2 February 1943 |
| Time: | 21:15 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ED488 |
| MSN: | VN-M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kapelstraat, Hamont-Achel, Limburg -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe |
On their way home, the aircraft of F/O Al Power and his crew was attacked by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib and radio operator Helmut Fischer of the Stab I./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 'G9+BB' from Venlo airfield, the Netherlands. The two air gunners immediately opened fire on the attacking German plane, but a second attack left both air gunners fatally wounded. The steering mechanism was damaged and the plane caught fire. Since the plane was completely out of control, F/O Al Power instructed his crew to bale out, but as the last man to leave the plane, his parachute failed to open.
The Lancaster flew low over the nearby farm, owned by the Tijskens family, and crashed in a swamp called 'Het Papebos', in the Belgian village of Hamont at 9:27 P.M.
Sources:
http://www.grevenbroekmuseum.be/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79&Itemid=106&lang=en
nachtjagd combat archive 1943 part one
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/lancaster-ed488-bij-hamont-achel
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 July 1943 | ED753 | 50 Sqn RAF | 5 | Ravensteinseweg, Wijchen, Gelderland |  |
w/o |
| 22 June 1944 | LL840 | 50 Sqn RAF | 2 | Oenerbroek, Oene, Gelderland | |
w/o |
| 6 November 1944 | LM628 | 50 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Heerde, Gelderland | |
w/o |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Jan-2009 05:01 | Geert | Added |
| 04-Feb-2011 12:36 | ThW | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Damage] |
| 17-Jul-2011 12:06 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jul-2013 15:37 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
| 18-Aug-2013 21:09 | JINX | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |
| 25-Aug-2018 10:20 | TigerTimon | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Nov-2018 20:07 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 28-Oct-2019 18:50 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Source, Embed code] |
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