Date:	Friday 29 September 1944
Time:	02:44
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI
Owner/operator:	21 Sqn RAF
Registration:	NT179
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Neerijse, Flemish Brabant, 15 km southeast of B.58 Melsbroek/Brussels. -   Belgium
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire
Destination airport:	B.58 Melsbroek/Brussels (B)

Narrative:
Mosquito NT179: Took off for a Intruder mission to the Utrecht-Dusseldorf area. 29/09/1944
Aircraft was shot down by a friendly Mosquito HK250 (219 Sqdn) during a mission over Germany
An excerpt from “Identification: Friend or Foe”:
“It was on the way back from Germany that fate turned against the new team; it was then that their aircraft was detected and regarded with suspicion by a ground control interception radar unit of the RAF set up somewhere in liberated territory. Mosquito NT179 was not transmitting IFF—Identification, Friend or Foe—and so GCI was unable to determine whether this was a friendly or enemy plane. In addition, NT179 approached Brussels on a track and at a height about which there were no friendly movement warnings at the time in question. In other words, for the GCI controller, Mosquito NT179 was an unidentified and potentially enemy plane, in air force jargon a ‘bogey’.”
Crew:
F/O (J/22008) George Dewar MacLEOD (pilot) RCAF - Killed
F/O (153.253) Alan Charles WIGGINS (nav) RAFVR - killed

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.https://www.scribd.com/book/115436001/Identification-Friend-or-Foe
3.https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/27665-mosquito-resin-or-ir-lights/&page=4

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Apr-2014 17:55	Nepa	Added
14-Sep-2014 12:12	Glock G19	Updated [Phase, Destination airport]
12-Aug-2015 15:26	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
30-Jan-2019 17:08	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]
12-Sep-2021 09:32	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]
12-Sep-2021 09:34	Nepa	Updated [Location, Operator]
24-Sep-2021 15:52	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
24-Dec-2021 10:29	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
23-Oct-2022 22:11	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]