Date:	Wednesday 27 January 1943
Time:
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Owner/operator:	277 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N3392
MSN:	352
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, 25 miles East of Leiston, Suffolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Stapleford Tawney, Abridge, Essex
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I N3392, 277 Squadron RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 27 January 1943 when Ditched after engine failure while on search for bomber crew. Aircraft came down in the North Sea, 25 miles East of Leiston, Suffolk. Both crew survived and were rescued

Leiston is an English town in the East Suffolk non-metropolitan district of Suffolk, near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2 miles from the North Sea coast, 21 miles north-east of Ipswich and 90 miles north-east of London.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1977 p 9)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81:
3. 277 Squadron ORB for January to December 1943: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/1601: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2504243
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_the_South_East.pdf
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._277_Squadron_RAF#History
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapleford_Aerodrome#Second_World_War
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiston

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Feb-2008 11:47	JINX	Added
04-Feb-2008 11:48	JINX	Updated
23-Apr-2015 18:52	Dandy	Updated [Operator, Source]