ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 247500
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| Date: | Saturday 27 May 1944 |
| Time: | 11 :25 |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | MN342 |
| MSN: | I8-P |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Location: | Waterhouse farm, Brockhampton -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hurn |
While on a test flight, pilot engaged in mock dogfight with an American P-47 Thunderbolt at low altitude. In an attempt to get on the P-47's tail, aircraft stalled and spun in during a tight turn between 200 and 500 feet AGL. The pilot perished in the crash, the aircraft was destroyed in the fire.
Pilot was J35984 F/O Nicholas Stusiak RCAF.
Sources:
440 Sqn RCAF wartime logs from DND archive microfilms (incl mission report)
Personnel records from Archive Canada (incl. accident report)
https://collectionscanada.ca/obj/001056/f2/s/sww-30731-stusiak-nicholas-j35994.pdf
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2691016
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=440+sqd+&qand=&exc1=&exc2=
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=35984&qand=&exc1=&exc2=
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 December 1944 | MP149 | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF | 0 | Heeze, Noord-Brabant |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Feb-2021 13:14 | tachel | Added |
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