Date:	Saturday 10 March 1945
Time:	22:57
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito T Mk III
Owner/operator:	16 OTU RAF
Registration:	RR287
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF stn Barford St.John, Oxfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Barford St.John, Oxfordshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito RR287: Took off at 22:50 hrs for Night dual training flight /dual circuit training. 10/02/1945
But after taking off from RAF Barford St.John it lost power and flew into the trees. The aircraft crashed about 3,000 yards from the base.
Crew:
P/O (185.230) John George HOWELL DFC (pilot) RAFVR - killed (NCO:1334446 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 07 November, 1944)
F/Lt (107.517) Ashley Stanley John FARDELL (Nav) RAFVR - killed (NCO:1165665 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 11 November, 1941)

From Jack Currie's "Mosquito Victory" : [On seeing a corporal of the RAF Pollce removing F/L Fardell's personal belongings from the hut he shared with the author] "They had not quite removed everything. On the floor between Fardell's bed and that of Sanderson's (who slept serenely on) lay Fardell's favourite scarf, a green silk square, white-spotted - the scarf he always wore when he went flying. The silk slipped softly through my fingers as I folded it. That night, Fardell had flown without his whammy - not that it could have made a difference to his destiny."

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.Mosquito Victory (Jack Currie, Goodall Publications ISBN 0907579035)
3.ORB 16 OTU RAF
4.CWGC
5.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-May-2008 22:09	Nepa	Added
22-Feb-2010 10:30	NePa	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
09-Mar-2012 23:48	Nepa	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Jun-2014 15:01	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
18-Jan-2015 09:07	SIS07	Updated [Location]
20-Sep-2015 17:24	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
20-Oct-2019 20:16	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
01-Dec-2021 18:05	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
04-Aug-2022 07:41	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]