Date:	Monday 5 November 1945
Time:
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PD383
MSN:	BH-Z
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 27
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Tyrrhenian Sea, off Corsica -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bari, Italy
Destination airport:	RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Avro Lancaster PD383 (BH-Z) of 300 ("Ziemi Mazowieckiej") Squadron RAF. Lost 5-11-1945 with 20 passengers on board, and a crew of 7 a/c perished somewhere along its route from Italy to England, reportedly into the Tyrrhenian Sea, off Corsica. Cause unknown.

Crew of Lancaster PD383:
F/Sgt Nowak,
F/Sgt Pietrzak,
F/Sgt Szumski,
F/Sgt Skibinski,
F/Sgt Warcholek,
F/Sgt Antoszczyszyn all KIAS

The 20 passengers are all named in link #3.

1. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
2. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. http://www.polishsquadronsremembered.com/300/300_losses.html
4. http://aircrewremembered.com/warcholek-bronislaw.html
5. https://en.valka.cz/topic/view/18166/300-polska-perut-RAF-1940-1947

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Aug-2013 20:13	JINX	Added
19-Feb-2015 18:02	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
11-Jun-2016 19:31	TB	Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Location]
10-Oct-2018 01:47	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
05-Feb-2020 20:27	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]