Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV DZ343,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52491
 
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Date:Friday 23 October 1942
Time:15:02
Type:Silhouette image of generic MOSQ model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:105 Sqn RAF
Registration: DZ343
MSN: GB-Z
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:near Raard, 3km west-south-west of Dokkum, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Mosquito DZ343/Z: Took off at 12:53 hrs for mission to the Stork diesel works in Hengelo. 23/10/1942
Missing. Damaged by light flak 3km from the west Dokkum. It crashed at 15:02 hrs near Raard, Friesland. Dutch eye witnesses report that the aircraft was in flames when it crashed. There was an explosion moments after impact.
Crew:
S/Ldr (36147) Joseph Cunningham SIMPSON (pilot) RAF : killed
F/Lt (44227) Claud Bransby WALTER (obs.) RAF : killed (NCO:566287 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 13 August, 1940)




Sources:

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2.ORB 105 Sqn RAF
3.Bomber Command Losses 1942
4.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
27 February 1943 DZ472 105 Sqn RAF 2 Brick Kiln Wood Beachamwell, 1mi SE of RAF stn Marham, Norfolk England w/o
29 November 1944 ML923 105 Sqn RAF 0 RAF stn Woodbridge, Suffolk, England min
28 January 1945 ML923 105 Sqn RAF 2 Meurthe-et-Moselle, department in the Grand Est region. w/o

Images:


Mosquito Production list showing DZ343 was a B Mk IV

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
18-Nov-2009 04:17 NePa Updated
05-Feb-2012 14:37 Nepa Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
22-Jan-2013 07:44 Nepa Updated [Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
16-Jun-2014 11:43 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
22-Jul-2015 12:37 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type]
12-Apr-2016 11:10 Nepa Updated [Source, Narrative]
20-Oct-2017 12:29 TigerTimon Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
20-Oct-2017 14:08 TigerTimon Updated [Aircraft type]
21-Oct-2017 11:21 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Oct-2017 12:13 Red Dragon Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Oct-2017 19:15 Nepa Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Sep-2018 17:35 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]
22-Apr-2019 13:24 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
30-Oct-2020 18:41 TigerTimon Updated [Other fatalities]
21-Jan-2021 15:18 Anon. Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Operator]
02-Sep-2021 20:43 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Operator]
14-Feb-2022 18:12 grapeshot418 Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Photo]
28-Jun-2022 16:45 Nepa Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
05-Aug-2022 13:38 Rob Davis Updated [Source, Narrative]

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