Accident Handley Page Halifax Mk I L9501,
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Date:Friday 29 August 1941
Time:night
Type:Silhouette image of generic hlfx model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Handley Page Halifax Mk I
Owner/operator:35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF
Registration: L9501
MSN: TL-Y
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Gahlen, Schermbeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 00:12 hrs for an operation to Duisburg in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was hit by Flak of the 1.-3./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 465 & crashed.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=L9501
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
5 May 1943 DT489 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF 6 west of Portland Gelling cross-roads in Huntingdonshire, England w/o

Revision history:

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21-Mar-2020 15:53 TigerTimon Added

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