ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 185655
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| Date: | Thursday 17 December 1942 |
| Time: | 23:30 |
| Type: |  Bristol Beaufighter Mk VIF |
| Owner/operator: | 255 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ???? |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Bône airfield, Annaba, French Algeria -
 Algeria
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Souk-el-Arba airfield, Tunisia |
| Bône airfield, Alderia |
The night of the 16/17 December 1942 saw F/O Greaves (pilot) and W/O Robbins (obs.) in an even greater spot of bother after shooting down a He.111. Having opened fire from a range estimated at no more than 50 feet, the Beaufighter flew right through the curtain of fire and debris that resulted from the German bomber exploding. The ORB reports...
Emerging the other side F/O Greaves found his cockpit completely blacked out and, according to his instruments, he was doing a steep turn to starboard. Putting the wheel fully over to port the turn to starboard continued at rate 1 in an inexplicable and alarming manner... Pilot then throttled back the port engine and managed to fly the aircraft straight. He then opened one of his clear vision panels and contrived to scrape quite a lot of the newly acquired camouflage off the windscreen. Although the controls were exceedingly bad owing to the fact that the starboard aileron had been burnt off completely, the pilot succeeded in flying the Beaufighter to Bône...
Crew:
F/O (113.989) Douglas Haig GREAVES (pilot) RAFVR - Ok.
W/O (1161497) Frederic Mitton ROBBINS (nav.) RAFVR - Ok
Sources:
Bristol Beaufighter production list
ORB 255 Sqdn RAF
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Mar-2016 14:44 | Nepa | Added |
| 08-Aug-2021 09:47 | SD | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 16-Apr-2022 11:20 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 17-Apr-2022 23:21 | Nepa | Updated [Registration, Destination airport, Source, Operator] |
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