Date:	Tuesday 29 August 1944
Time:	23:30
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk X
Owner/operator:	428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	KB709
MSN:	NA-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kattegatt Sea, off Falkenberg -   Sweden
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middleton St. George, County Durham
Destination airport:

Narrative:
During a raid on Stettin which resulted in the sinking of a 2000 ton ship in the harbour and 7 other ships being damaged, KB-709 crashed in the sea off Falkenberg, Sweden. All seven crew lost. 3 buried in Falkenberg (Halland), 3 on Anholt. One body never found.
Crew:
Flying Officer L S. Plunkett RCAF,
Sgt. J. McFarlane RAF,
Flying Officer L H C. Gardiner DFC RCAF,
WO.1 J.B. Gravelet-Chapman RCAF
Flying Officer T. Baillie RCAF,
Flight Sgt. H. Gordon,
Sgt. D.A.G. Sparkes.

On 6/11/1944 the body of Flight Engineer Sgt James McFarlane RAF was washed ashore at Vesterstrand beach, Anholt.

1. Original entry by masen63
2. Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrog hem (1994)
3. Wikander, Lars et al: Flygdramatik i Halland under andra världskriget (1995)
4. Air Britain: RAF Aircraft KA100-KZ999, published 1990
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead
6. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RAF_owned_JP100.html
7. http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/lancavro.html#indexkb709

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Sep-2011 04:52	Uli Elch	Added
13-Sep-2011 05:06	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
23-Jan-2012 04:02	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
16-Jan-2013 00:00	Doug	Updated [Operator, Narrative, ]
16-Jan-2013 00:00	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Narrative, ]
16-Jan-2013 11:16	Anon.	Updated [Embed code, Narrative, ]
16-Jan-2013 12:20	Anon.	Updated
05-Jun-2013 07:50	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, ]
04-Jul-2016 16:15	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, ]
01-Jan-2018 17:25	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
09-Oct-2018 23:22	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
09-Oct-2018 23:25	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location, Narrative, ]
14-Oct-2018 15:41	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
17-Jun-2021 18:21	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, ]