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Date: | Sunday 16 August 1942 |
Time: | 06:58 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N3705 |
MSN: | MG-F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Location: | near Kasteel Loevestein, Poederoijen, Gelderland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 01:25 local time for a Gardening (mine-laying) operation to the Nectarine I area.
The crew lost their orientation and the a/c suffered engine trouble. The Germans repaired the a/c and it was flown to the Luftwaffe's test facility at Rechlin in Germany.
The aircraft was last heard on w/t at 04:58 hours (GMT) indicating that the a/c was over a built up area asking for a course. The captain elected to make an emergency landing. The aircraft eventually came to rest in an open field near Loevestein Castle at Poederoijen.
All seven crew members were taken prisoner of war.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1777&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N3705 http://sas.raf38group.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=23 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17479241
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
7 August 1942 |
R9154 |
7 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Hüthum, Emmerich, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
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w/o |
Media:
Reference: AIR 81/17038
Description:
Sergeant S C Orrell, Sergeant A R Holman, Sergeant J A B Bond, Sergeant C A Bowers, Sergeant F Thompson, Sergeant T R Gough, Sergeant A Buckley: prisoners of war; Stirling N3705, 7 Squadron, aircraft failed to return from an operational flight over Borkum, Germany, 16 August 1942
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Anon. |
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harro |
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TigerTimon |
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TigerTimon |
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TigerTimon |
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