Accident Handley Page Hampden Mk I P2092,
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Date:Tuesday 8 April 1941
Time:00:43 LT
Type:Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:14 OTU RAF
Registration: P2092
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:railway line at Little Bytham, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Cottesmore, Rutland
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Airborne from Cottesmore on a night practise-bombing sortie.
Around 00:43 local time, the aircraft was shot up by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Hans Hahn of the 3./NJG 2, who was flying a Ju 88C from Gilze-Rijen airfield, the Netherlands. The aircraft crash-landed straddling the main east coast railway line.

Crew:
Sgt R.J. Holborow - killed
P/O W.E. Cochrane - killed
Sgt W.J. Cunningham - killed

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.bcar.org.uk/new1941-incident-logs

Revision history:

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06-Apr-2019 13:01 TigerTimon Added

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