ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 72462
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| Date: | Monday 2 October 1944 |
| Time: | 23:40 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI |
| Owner/operator: | 605 (County of Warwick) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HJ779 |
| MSN: | UP-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Eggebek airfield, Schleswig-Holstein. -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Coltishall, Norfolk |
Mosquito HJ779/L: Took off at 20:43 hrs for Night Intruder mission over Baltic area. 02/10/1944
Missing. The aircraft was hit by light Flak of the I./leichte Heimat-Flak-Batterie 38/XI. Crashed at 23:40 hrs.
Crew:
F/Lt (127.342) Basil Godfrey BENSTED (pilot) RAFVR - killed
P/O (178.941) Cyril Lawrence BURRAGE (nav.) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 605 Sqdn RAF
3.Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 July 1943 | DZ716 | 605 (County of Warwick) Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF stn Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, England |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Feb-2010 10:29 | NePa | Added |
| 10-Dec-2011 10:48 | Nepa | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Jan-2012 07:11 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 25-Jun-2014 14:37 | Next | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 29-Aug-2015 14:17 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative] |
| 27-Jan-2019 19:29 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 17-May-2019 17:07 | Nepa | Updated [Narrative, Operator] |
| 26-Mar-2021 16:22 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2021 20:08 | Don Diego | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
| 04-Jan-2022 23:30 | Nepa | Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative, Operator] |
| 05-Jan-2022 19:17 | Nepa | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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