Accident Avro Lancaster Mk I ED366,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 302824
 
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Date:Friday 22 October 1943
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:166 Sqn RAF
Registration: ED366
MSN: AS-C
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Obermeiser -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Kirmington
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Damaged by flak, finished off by a night fighter. Only the pilot managed to bail out safely. He was interned at Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe).

Crew
Pilot: 1078460 Sergeant Kenneth Hurst (RAFVR) - PoW
Navigator: 1601078 Sergeant John Saffrey (RAFVR) - KIA
Bomb AImer: R/11601 Flight Sergeant Ronald Harris Butler (RCAF) - KIA
Flight Engineer: 1653285 Sergeant David Gareth Rees (RAFVR) - KIA
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: 1393558 Sergeant Walter George Gamage (RAFVR) - KIA
Air Gunner: R/155334 Sergeant John Terrance Costello (RCAF) - KIA
Air Gunner: 542252 Sergeant Michael Monaghan (RAFVR) - KIA

Sources:

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=ED366
https://www.raf166squadron.com/index.html
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ed366&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Personnel files of both RCAF crew members containing the official RAF loss report.
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2198319
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2198453

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
31 March 1944 ND798 166 Sqn RAF 3 Griesenbach, Buchholz, Rheinland-Pfalz w/o

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