Date:	Saturday 9 October 1943
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI
Owner/operator:	464 Sqn RAAF
Registration:	HX912
MSN:	SB-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Schoten, on north-east outskirts of Antwerp, province of Antwerp. -   Belgium
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito HX912/F: Takeoff at 11:10 hrs for mission to Metz/Wolppy. Missing. 09/10/1943.
Took off with 11 others, being one of two which failed to return. Poor weather encountered shortly after take-off resulted in aircraft becoming scattered and landing away from base on return to England. Mosquito HX912 was last seen by the others in a shallow dive heading towards the cloud-covered target area. Later found to have crashed at Schoten, on the NE outskirts of Antwerp. Apparently the pilot accidentally dropped their bomb load while flying at very low level & the ensuing exposion destroyed the aircraft killing both crew members. Both very likely succumbed to the close proximity of bomb release to intercom button.
Crew:
F/Lt (Aus.405106) Phillip Charles Copeland KERR (pilot) RAAF - killed
F/O (NZ403446) Bernard John Eward HANNAH (nav.) RNZAF - killed

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 464 Sqdn RAAF
3.https://www.awm.gov.au//catalogue/research_centre/pdf/rc09125z014_1.pdf
4.https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/mosquito-te-schoten

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Jan-2010 21:25	NePa	Added
22-Sep-2011 13:23	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative]
15-Nov-2011 13:36	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Source]
01-Mar-2014 10:29	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Nov-2014 21:14	Xindel X	Updated [Narrative]
03-Aug-2015 11:12	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
20-Feb-2016 16:35	Next	Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Oct-2018 11:33	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source]
06-Oct-2018 14:11	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, Operator]
31-Aug-2021 17:12	TB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator]
22-Oct-2021 09:15	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
26-Jun-2022 01:42	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]