ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 264520
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Date: | Wednesday 22 September 1943 |
Time: | 22:32 LT |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 218 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BK700 |
MSN: | HA-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Neustadt am Rübenberge, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Downham Market, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:50 (local time) for an operation against Hannover.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by heavy (schwere) Flak; crashed.
All seven rest in the Hannover War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BK700&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
31 May 1942 |
R9311 |
218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
0 |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Jun-2021 15:20 |
TigerTimon |
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