| Date: | Sunday 4 April 1943 |
| Time: | 01:38 |
| Type: |  Lockheed 18-40 Lodestar (C-56B-LO) |
| Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-AGEJ |
| MSN: | 18-2085 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1941 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | 50 km NW off Skagen, Denmark [North Sea] -
 Atlantic Ocean
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA/ESSB) |
| Saint Andrews-Leuchars RAF Station (ADX/EGQL) |
The Lodestar was reportedly shot down by a Junkers Ju 88 of Luftwaffe 10/NJG 3, piloted by Leutnant Werner Speidel.
Sources:
RAF Nordic casuality register / by Knut Larsson
The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
rafcommands.com
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