ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202486
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Date: | Monday 13 April 1942 |
Time: | 04:22 |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | AT120 |
MSN: | EQ- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | Missing -
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Balderton |
Destination airport: | Essen, Germany |
Narrative:Last heard on W/T by Heston at 04:22.The presumption is that the aircraft crashed into the sea.
Crew
Pilot: R/62957 Flt Sgt William Ian Meech RCAF – Aylesham Cemetery Kent Block O. Row B. Grave 1.
Observer: R/62265 Sgt John Joseph Davenport RCAF - Aylesham Cemetery Kent Block O. Row A. Grave 2.
R/65194 Flt Sgt George Malcolm Lantz RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 105
R/65170 Flt Sgt Gordon John Wilkie RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 107
Sources:
408 "Goose" Squadron website
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
9 March 1942 |
AD842 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
3 |
nr RAF North Luffenham |
|
w/o |
11 April 1942 |
AT186 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
0 |
Clifton Pastures SE of Beeston |
|
unk |
15 April 1942 |
AT141 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
4 |
near Eichlinghofen, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Dec-2017 22:35 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
06-Oct-2018 18:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
17-Apr-2020 21:03 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Destination airport] |
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