ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 70327
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| Date: | Wednesday 18 October 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI |
| Owner/operator: | 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | HR351 |
| MSN: | TH-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Burguge, near Lanisce, Yugoslavia -
 Croatia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ancona airfield (I) |
| RAF Hunsdon, Hertfordshire |
Mosquito HR351/D: Missing from Intruder mission to Eastern Austria. 18/10/1944
In the afternoon on 16/10/1944 took off from a base RAF Hunsdon two fighter bombers Mosquito Day Ranger mission. The crew consisted of F/Lt Cotterill DFC with navigator F/O Finlayson DFC (HR351), and the second machine saddled F / Lt. Stuart Newton May and navigator F / O Jack D. Ritch (PZ220). Both crew were from 418 Sqdn RCAF. After a stopover and refueling base at St. Dizier in France continued both crews in the early hours of 17/10/1944 to the east. Their objective was the airport Piestany.
Mosquito PZ220 crash. Second machine with Frame Number TH-D (HR351) flew to the base of Ancona in Italy. The following day with the same crew F/Lt Cotterill DFC with navigator F/O Finlayson DFC took off again to return to the UK. For unknown reasons was lost over Yugoslavia.
Crew:
F/Lt (J/4874) Stanley Herbert Ross COTTERILL DFC (pilot) RCAF - killed
F/Lt (J/13956) Colin Gowans FINLAYSON DFC (nav.) RCAF - killed
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 418 Sqdn RAF
3.kronika-airwarsk.blogspot.cz/2012/10/raf-16101944.html
4.http://flyingforyourlife.com/navs/finlayson/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 February 1944 | HJ715 | 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF | 2 | near Warburton, 2 miles NW of RAF stn Ford, Sussex, England. |  |
w/o |
| 1 June 1944 | NS980 | 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF | 2 | Throop, Bournemouth, Dorset, England | |
w/o |
| 5 January 1945 | NS830 | 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF | 2 | Missing. |  |
w/o |
| 25 March 1945 | PZ458 | 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Advanced Landing Ground B.77 Gilze-Rijen, North Brabant. |  |
min |
| 26 March 1945 | PZ458 | 418 (City of Edmonton) Sqn RCAF | 1 | 20 km southwest of Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant. | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Dec-2009 11:09 | NePa | Added |
| 21-Dec-2011 03:45 | nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Jan-2012 09:14 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 01-May-2014 17:08 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jul-2014 14:02 | wilbur | Updated [Location, Country, Source] |
| 29-Aug-2015 19:19 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 10-May-2019 21:24 | Nepa | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |
| 02-Jul-2022 17:44 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 03-Jul-2022 22:05 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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