ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 267047
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| Date: | Thursday 15 June 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Beaufighter TF Mk X |
| Owner/operator: | 211 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | NE317 |
| MSN: | "X" |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Chittagong airfield, Brit. India -
 Bangladesh
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Chiringa, India |
| RAF Chittagong, India |
Beaufighter NE317 (211 Sqdn RAF) Coded ‘X’
Beaufighters ‘W’ & ‘X’ Takeoff from RAF Chiringa for operations.
‘W’ landed at Chittagong with engine trouble.
After a successful sortie along the Irrawaddy on 15 June, crew "X" found the weather had so deteriorated as they returned over the Hill country that Feni and other local airfields were closed. Diverting to Chittagong, pilot groped his way down through the cloud for an emergency landing, only to find the strip partly flooded, wrenching off one undercarriage leg and ending in a paddy field. The pair were unhurt, though it was a close shave: they narrowly missed an American B25 Mitchell making an unauthorised landing “against the sock”. 15/06/1944
Crew:
F/O (151222) Geoffrey Victor VARDIGANS DFC (pilot) RAFVR - Ok
W/O (1600179) Dennis Arthur SPENCER DFC (nav.) RAFVR - Ok
Sources:
http://www.211squadron.org/bristol_beaufighter.html
ORB 211 Sqdn RAF
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 February 1944 | 47 Sqn RAF | 0 | 60 miles SSE of Koufonisi, Crete. |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Aug-2021 21:40 | Nepa | Added [Operator] |
| 23-Aug-2021 21:42 | Anon. | Updated [Phase, Operator] |
| 24-Aug-2021 10:24 | Anon. | Updated [Departure airport, Operator] |
| 20-Jan-2022 23:22 | Nepa | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |
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