Accident Taylorcraft Auster AOP.IV MT142,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50733
 
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Date:Saturday 14 October 1944
Time:10:30
Type:Taylorcraft Auster AOP.IV
Owner/operator:658 (AOP) Sqn RAF
Registration: MT142
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Westerbeek, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:grass strip at Escharen, Noord-Brabant
Destination airport:
Narrative:
While engaged in a recce flight, hit by friendly fire and crashed. The pilot, Lieutenant John Arthur Hill, died in the crash and rests at the Overloon War Cemetery; grave I D 10.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4537&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
https://www.bhic.nl/ontdekken/verhalen/neergestorte-vliegtuigen-in-oploo-en-sint-anthonis-1940-1945
book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd' for airfield

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
31-Oct-2018 14:32 gerard57 Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative]
08-Oct-2019 05:28 TigerTimon Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
09-Oct-2019 15:28 TigerTimon Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source]

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