Date:	Saturday 18 May 1940
Time:	12:57
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Owner/operator:	229 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P2729
MSN:	RE-L
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	west of Brussels -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Northolt, South Ruislip, Middlesex
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane Mk.I P2729 (RE-L) 229 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (failed to return) from a combat air patrol over the Antwerp/Brussesls area. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/489): "Hurricane crashed near Brussels, Belgium, 18 May 1940. Pilot Officer M A Bussey: prisoner of war"

Shut down by a Bf 109 either Ltn. Hans-Jürgen Hepe: 2 5./JG 2 or Fw. Karl-Heinz Harbauer: 2 4./JG 2. Pilot - Pilot Officer Michael A Bussey captured and taken as PoW. Was interned in PoW Camp Stalag Luft III

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J .Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p16)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/489: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502191
3. Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Vol.1 by Norman L R Franks (p 25)
4. https://www.worldnavalships.com/directory/aircrewprofile.php?AircrewID=9958

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29 May 1940

P2636

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English Channel, off Dunkirk, Pas de Calais

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Jun-2011 02:37	ThW	Added
06-Jan-2012 07:14	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative]
03-Aug-2019 22:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]