Date:	Tuesday 14 November 1939
Time:	13:45
Type:	Saunders Roe A.27 London II
Owner/operator:	201 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K5912
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, 80 miles East of Shetland Isles -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Sullom Voe, Shetland Isles
Destination airport:	RAF Sullom Voe
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Sullom Voe, Shetland Isles at 08:50 hours. While en-route on North Sea patrol (Patrol Pattern "A") towards Norway, force landed at 13:45 hours on 14/11/1939 into the North Sea, 80 miles East of Shetland Isles. Crew rescued & aircraft sunk by gunfire by HMS Imperial, which took the crew to Methil, Fife

Crew:
Pilot: Flying Officer John Derek Middleton RAF (Service Number 33326) OK, (died 09/07/40 while still with 201 Squadron, flying Sunderland N6133 in which he was shot down.)
Co-pilot: Pilot Officer. Lindsay OK

1. Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War Vol 1 by Ross McNeil page 19
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976)
3. Commonwealth War Graves Commission: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1076796/middleton,-john-derek/
4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/39411748@N06/6525449623

AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: SARO A.27 LONDON. © IWM (CH 1922)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Nov-2015 07:14	JINX	Added
07-Jan-2016 20:56	JIXN	Updated [Operator]
24-Jun-2018 22:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
23-Oct-2018 20:57	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]