Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV DZ346,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 70098
 
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Date:Saturday 31 October 1942
Time:11:55
Type:Silhouette image of generic MOSQ model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV
Owner/operator:1655 MTU RAF
Registration: DZ346
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:mile S of Norton Church, 6 miles of Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: En route
Nature:Training
Departure airport:RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Mosquito DZ346 (Mosquito Training/Conversion Unit RAF): Take off for training flight. 31/10/1942
Hit tree and crashed in bad weather at 11:55 hrs.
Crew:
Sgt (1380898) William Leyson RHYS (pilot) RAFVR - killed
F/O (120123) David Hulme HORNBY (obs) RAFVR - killed (NCO:656024 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 26 May, 1942)

Sources:

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 1655 MTU RAF
3.CWGC
4.http://lancasterbombersinfo.ipage.com/Data/Form-78s/Mosquito/DZ228-DZ360/0.html
5.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
18-Nov-2009 02:08 NePa Added
10-Jan-2010 23:28 NePa Updated [Departure airport, Narrative]
05-Feb-2012 14:38 Nepa Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
16-Jun-2014 11:47 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative]
02-Sep-2014 14:04 DB Updated [Location]
22-Jul-2015 12:38 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type]
29-Aug-2015 12:04 pepa Updated [Location]
29-Aug-2015 12:05 Jixn Updated [Location]
23-Jan-2016 14:04 PePa Updated [Narrative]
12-Apr-2016 11:20 Nepa Updated [Source, Narrative]
15-Dec-2018 20:01 Nepa Updated [Narrative, Operator]
01-May-2019 09:02 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
01-May-2019 09:03 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
01-May-2019 09:04 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
11-Sep-2021 16:36 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Operator]
27-Sep-2021 09:35 Nepa Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]
27-Sep-2021 09:36 Nepa Updated [Location, Operator]
22-Dec-2021 20:24 grapeshot418 Updated [Aircraft type, Source]
06-Aug-2022 08:02 Rob Davis Updated [Source, Narrative]

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