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Date: | Sunday 30 January 1944 |
Time: | 11:35 |
Type: | de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI |
Owner/operator: | 487 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HX916 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bilsham Corner, 1 mile north of Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Hunsdon, Hertfordshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Mosquito HX916/A: Took off at 11:00 hrs with five others for Day mission over Northern France. 30/01/1944
In fog 35 minutes later flew into the ground at Bilsham Corner, about a mile north of Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex. As the aircraft broke up bombs and debris struck nearby cottages, killing an elderly man and a girl.
Crew:
F/Sgt (NZ42406) John Thomas William HYNDMAN (pilot) RNZAF - killed
W/O (R/122398) George Norman MATTHEWS (nav.) RCAF - killed
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The two civilians who died were George Rogers, aged 82, and Mary Ifould, aged 9.
The incident was reported in the local newspaper (Bognor Regis Observer - Saturday 5 February 1944)
"BILSHAM PLANE CRASH
FOUR KILLED IN SUNDAY TRAGEDY
On Sunday last a Mosquito bomber crashed at Bilsham, near Littlehampton, killing the crew of two. The engines tore away from the machine and were hurled into nearby houses, killing a little girl and an old man who happened to be in the garden. One bomb crashed into a house but did not explode. Considerable damage was caused to one house by fire. In attendance were the Aldingbourne Rescue Service and the Bognor Regis N.F.S.
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 487 Sqdn RNZAF
3.http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=13677.msg57861#msg57861
4.https://steemit.com/history/@len.george/de-havilland-dh-98-mosquito-487-nz-sqn-1943.
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NePa |
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angels one five |
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25-Mar-2010 11:30 |
Anon. |
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angels one five |
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01-Nov-2010 15:37 |
Nepa |
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15-Nov-2011 08:44 |
Nepa |
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27-May-2014 12:13 |
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02-Sep-2014 13:56 |
R.Giggs |
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05-Aug-2015 07:47 |
Nepa |
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29-Mar-2019 22:40 |
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02-Apr-2020 19:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
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30-Oct-2020 21:16 |
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13-Nov-2021 12:23 |
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