ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340966
Date: | Wednesday 2 June 1943 |
Time: | 22:48 |
Type: | Short Sunderland GR.3 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Australian Air Force - RAAF |
Registration: | EJ134 |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Praa Sands, South Cornwall -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The Sunderland flying boat was operating with 461 Squadron, RAAF. It was on a patrol mission to the Bay of Biscay when it was attacked by eight Junkers Ju-88 Luftwaffe planes. The crew managed to fight them off and made it back to the U.K. A forced landing was made near the beach. The seaplane was wrecked by tides and seas the next morning.
Sources:
The Sunderland Flying-boat Queen / By John Evans, 1993 Australian Military Aircraft Serials and Aircraft History web site Revision history:
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