Date:	Monday 5 June 1944
Time:	00:59
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk XVI
Owner/operator:	692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF
Registration:	ML971
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	field near RAF stn Warboys, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Gransden Lodge, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Warboys, Cambridgeshire

Narrative:
Mosquito ML971: Took off at 00:37 hrs. for bomb. mission over Cologne. 05/06/1944
Port engine lost power shortly after take off. Belly-landed on attempted return RAF Warboys at 00:59hrs.
Unexploded 4000lb bomb rolled away.
Crew:
F/Lt (46919) John Ernest Lloyd GOVER DFC (pilot) RAF - Injured /2nd degree burns (NCO:655336 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 09 December, 1941)
F/O (137222) Edward TALBOT DFC (nav.) RAFVR - killed (NCO:655646 Commission Gazetted : Monday 09 February, 1942)

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.http://www.156squadron.com/display_newpff_roll.asp?ID=692
3.ORB 692 Sqdn RAF
4.CWGC
5.Global Losses Database (Henk Welting) Database
6.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Apr-2013 16:05	Nepa	Added
05-Jun-2013 06:06	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
02-Jul-2014 21:13	Shout	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
29-Sep-2014 16:18	Shout	Updated [Location, Narrative]
14-Aug-2015 07:55	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative]
20-Mar-2019 20:24	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator]
26-Feb-2020 14:36	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
26-Oct-2020 11:26	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]
10-Oct-2021 09:15	Nepa	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
04-Jun-2022 06:28	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
02-Aug-2022 21:32	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
05-Aug-2022 07:16	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]