Date:	Monday 2 September 1940
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IA
Owner/operator:	37 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N2992
MSN:	LF-S
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea near Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Feltwell, UK (takeoff at 20:50 hrs local time)
Destination airport:	Feltwell, UK

Narrative:
Flew into sea on return from Hannover raid (CFIT accident).
Cause either faulty altimeter setting or pilot falling asleep. The pilot was the only survivor:

Pilot P/O. M.S. BURBERRY RAF - rescued by HMS Niger two days later
Second Pilot P/O. G.H. JACKSON RAF - killed - Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, The Netherlands
Observer P/O. H. PHILIPPE RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 9
WOp Sgt. C.J. HOOPER RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 15
Air Gunner Sgt. P.W. BARBER RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 11
Air Gunner Sgt. T.C.M. BROWNE RNZAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 27

1.https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?2.aircraft=&sglo=T0808&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999, published 1991

3.AIR81/2989
4.Henk Welting's database (rafcommands.com)
5.CWGC
6.Bomber Command Losses (1939-1940) WR Chorley, page 105

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
02-Jan-2012 11:40	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Apr-2020 13:41	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Aug-2022 21:48	Nepa	Updated [Time, Narrative, Operator, ]
09-Aug-2025 15:41	MMR	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative, ]