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| Date: | Monday 31 January 1944 |
| Time: | 23:30 |
| Type: |  Short Sunderland |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | DW110 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 13 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Blue Stack Mountains, Donegal -
 Ireland
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Pembroke Dock RAF Station |
The Sunderland had been on a patrol mission for 13 hours and drifted off course over Ireland, while heading for Lough Erne. It flew into a very steep slope 200 feet below the top of a 2219 feet summit.
Sources:
Sunderland DW110
Foreign Aircraft Landings in Ireland 1939 - 1946
Location
Images:
photo (c) Daniel Patrick Hunter; Blue Stack Mountains, Donegal
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