Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III W5010,
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Date:Sunday 20 February 1944
Time:03:15 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:9 Sqn RAF
Registration: W5010
MSN: WS-L
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:near Stendal, Sachsen-Anhalt -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Bardney, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:48 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Josef Handing of the 10./NJG 5 (based at Brandis airfield in Sachsen), who was flying Bf 110 G-4 C9+EU.

For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W5010
Google Maps
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG5.htm

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
23 June 1943 ED699 9 Sqn RAF 7 Gellep-Stratum, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
23 September 1943 JA852 9 Sqn RAF 7 Gerolsheim, Rheinland-Pfalz w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
27-Dec-2019 20:10 TigerTimon Added
27-Dec-2019 20:28 TigerTimon Updated [Narrative]

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