Date:	Thursday 2 April 1942
Time:	01:34 LT
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z8805
MSN:	BU-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Rheinkilometer 667 at Niederkassel-Lülsdorf; Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Stradishall, Suffolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Operation - railway junctions at Hanau-Lohr in Hessen.
The aircraft was hit by Flak of the 7. Flak-Division and crashed.

Pilot: 934409 Sgt Eric Dixon - Rheinberg War Cemetery 1. D. 1.
Pilot: J/7030 Plt Off Thomas Best RCAF - Rheinberg War Cemetery 1. D. 2.
Observer: 1162948 Sgt Albert George Richards - Rheinberg War Cemetery 1. D. 4.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 109515 Plt Off James McKenzie Henderson - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. D. 6-18 (NCO:1359000 Commission Gazetted : Friday 19 December, 1941)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 939982 Sgt Ernest Keith Stevens - Rheinberg War Cemetery 1. D. 3.
Air Gunner: 1204242 Sgt Edward Thomas Albrighton - Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. D. 6-18.

CWGC
214 Squadron Association
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Nov-2017 22:56	Red Dragon	Added
04-Oct-2018 14:34	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator, ]
03-Nov-2019 11:20	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Operator, ]
16-Apr-2020 16:27	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
15-Nov-2021 13:55	manniwei	Updated [Location, ]
31-Mar-2022 17:25	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Source, ]
01-Apr-2024 07:07	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]