ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 193677
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| Date: | Sunday 9 February 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Anson Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 13 Mira Royal Hellenic Air Force |
| Registration: | N57 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | off Palaiochora, Crete -
 Greece
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
During early February 1941 Italian submarines had been seen several times in southern Aegean and Anson of 13 Mira had been ordered to patrol between the Saronic Gulf and Crete as a result. On 9 February the Anson I N57 took off for an antisubmarine patrol over the Sea of Crete despite bad weather but a storm debelopped and the crew got lost. The aircraft ran low on fuel and the crew released the bombload for safety, but one bomb hung-up and exploded as they finally landed into the sea off Palaiochora, on the southwest coast of Crete. The pilot, Sminagos (Captain) Nikolaos Toumpakaris, and the observer, Yposminagos (1st Lt) Pantelis Linos, were both killed. The radio operator, Archisminia (Wt Off) Tsigka, was injured but was rescued.
Sources:
"Air War for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete 1940-1941", by Christopher Shores, Brian Cull and Nicola Malizia. ISBN 0-948817-07-0
http://www.pasoipa.org.gr/lefkoma/pilot_details/?id=158
http://www.pasoipa.org.gr/lefkoma/pilot_details/?id=160
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Feb-2017 17:27 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 18-Feb-2017 10:56 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Operator] |
| 26-May-2017 14:56 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
| 14-Dec-2017 15:34 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
| 30-Jan-2020 09:29 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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