ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202295
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Date: | Monday 6 April 1942 |
Time: | 07:37 |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 144 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AT226 |
MSN: | PL- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Grendon Underwood Bombing Range 10 miles WNW of Aylesbury. -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF North Luffenham, Rutland |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Homebound they ran out of fuel and crashed landed at Grendon Underwood Bombing Range 10 miles WNW of Aylesbury. The crew thought they had landed in enemy territory and burnt the aircraft
Crew
Pilot: 402990 Sgt H C Weeks RAAF
Observer: Plt Off D H Johnson RAF
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt S Rickard RAF
Air Gunner: Flt Sgt M Y Kennedy RNZAF
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses 1942
144 Squadron
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
20 March 1940 |
L4137 |
144 Sqn RAF |
3 |
Scotter, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England |
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w/o |
10 April 1941 |
X3066 |
144 Sqn RAF |
4 |
2 km SW of Neeroeteren, Maaseik, Limburg |
|
w/o |
17 April 1941 |
AD761 |
144 Sqn RAF |
3 |
2 miles ENE of RAF Hemswell, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England |
|
w/o |
7 July 1941 |
AD871 |
144 Sqn RAF |
4 |
North Sea |
|
mis |
31 January 1942 |
AE359 |
144 Sqn RAF |
1 |
Aircraft ditched. Survivors spent some 20 hours in their dinghy. |
|
unk |
12 February 1942 |
AT175 |
144 Sqn RAF |
5 |
North Sea |
|
mis |
2 April 1942 |
AD959 |
144 Sqn RAF |
3 |
Groß Roscharden, Lastrup, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
11 April 1942 |
AT187 |
144 Sqn RAF |
3 |
Wrights Farm Holbeach Lincolnshire |
|
w/o |
11 April 1942 |
AT218 |
144 Sqn RAF |
3 |
near Kühhude, Bad Berleburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
14 April 1942 |
AT110 |
144 Sqn RAF |
4 |
Felpham Sussex |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Nov-2017 19:17 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
17-Oct-2018 05:52 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
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