ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 228056
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Date: | Sunday 25 June 1944 |
Time: | 00:40 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JA899 |
MSN: | VN-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ribeaucourt, Somme département -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:43 hrs for a bombing operation against a flying bomb site at Prouville.
The aircraft was hit by Flak of the 1./gemischte Flak-Abteilung 122 & crashed.
Sources:
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ja899 https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/25840-JA8991944-06-25.html http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=956 Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 July 1943 |
R5687 |
50 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Bremerhaven-Lehe |
|
w/o |
29 July 1944 |
LM210 |
50 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Huchenfeld, Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg |
|
w/o |
13 August 1944 |
PD237 |
50 Sqn RAF |
0 |
La Coubre sector, Charente-Maritime département |
|
w/o |
3 February 1945 |
PA223 |
50 Sqn RAF |
6 |
4 km SW of Hochfelden |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Aug-2019 16:38 |
tachel |
Added |
24-Dec-2019 09:46 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
16-Oct-2020 09:15 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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