ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231069
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Date: | Monday 3 January 1944 |
Time: | 02:50 approx |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 49 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB231 |
MSN: | EA-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Steinförde, Fürstenberg/Havel, Brandenburg -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Fiskerton, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:46 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Over Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the aircraft was rammed by another 49 Squadron aircraft, JB727. With one engine running and large part of its starboard wing missing, the crew safely abandoned the aircraft.
JB727, however, crashed with the loss of the entire crew.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB231 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
15 June 1943 |
ED432 |
49 Sqn RAF |
6 |
near the ice cellar at the Fontijnallee road, Doorwerth, Gelderland |
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w/o |
8 July 1944 |
LM541 |
49 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Le Chesne, Marbois, Eure département |
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w/o |
9 April 1945 |
PB374 |
49 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Lutzkendorf |
|
mis |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Dec-2019 10:16 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Dec-2019 11:04 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time] |
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