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| Date: | Sunday 17 December 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Shorts Sunderland IIIa |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF |
| Registration: | ML883 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Other |
| Location: | off Calshot -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
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The Sunderland IIIa flying boat was struck by a surface vessel during a gale. It was moored off Calshot and sank.
Sources:
calshotdivers.com
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