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| Date: | Sunday 27 April 1941 |
| Time: | 10:07 |
| Type: |  Short Sunderland I |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | L5807 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Location: | Kalafrana Bay -
 Malta
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
Set alight by a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf.109 of 7./JG 26, believed to be flown by air ace Joachim Müncheberg. The flying boat sank.
The Sunderland had just arrived after escorting eight Hawker Hurricane's and a Fairey Fulmar to Malta.
Sources:
Air Battle of Malta Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942 / A.Rogers, 2017
Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999
Aces of the Luftwaffe
Images:
photo (c) Steve Nye, collection of the Guildhall Museum, Rochester; Kalafrana Bay; 27 April 1941
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