Date:	Friday 16 April 1943
Time:	12:28
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:	1409 Met Flt RAF
Registration:	DZ406
MSN:	NO-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Vlimmeren, Beerse, province of Antwerp. -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito DZ406/K: Took off at 11:25 hrs for long range meteo reconnaissance flight to Stuttgart. 16/04/1943.
Missing. The aircraft was shot down by pilot Feldwebel Georg Hutter of the 5./JG 1, who was flying an Fw 190A from Woensdrecht airfield (NL).
Crew:
P/O (140916) George GRIFFITHS (pilot) RAFVR - killed (NCO:980216 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 30 March, 1943)
Sgt (1059977) Roland BROWN (obs) RAFVR - killed

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2.ORB 1409 Met. Flight RAF
3.Henk Welting's Database
4.CWGC
5.http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/JG1.htm
6.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Mosquito Production list showing DZ406 was a B Mk IV, note Source #1 URL to confirm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Jan-2010 00:23	NePa	Added
17-Apr-2010 01:09	Nepa	Updated [Time, Location, Narrative]
31-Oct-2011 13:45	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Dec-2011 10:04	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
02-Mar-2012 07:40	Nepa	Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Narrative]
18-Sep-2012 04:38	Nepa	Updated [Narrative]
08-Jun-2014 08:17	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
10-Jul-2014 17:21	Paix	Updated [Narrative]
07-Aug-2014 17:03	Cliford	Updated [Operator]
25-Jul-2015 08:33	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location]
14-Mar-2019 08:24	Nepa	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
15-May-2019 09:54	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
23-May-2019 11:03	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator]
24-Aug-2021 19:54	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities]
31-Aug-2021 17:09	TB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator]
03-Sep-2021 11:32	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative, Operator]
18-Dec-2021 22:44	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
16-Feb-2022 20:22	grapeshot418	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo]
22-Mar-2022 19:36	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
16-Apr-2022 08:56	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
01-Jun-2022 21:25	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
26-Jun-2022 01:37	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
05-Aug-2022 13:08	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]