ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49576
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| Date: | Sunday 3 December 1944 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Hawker Typhoon Mk IB |
| Owner/operator: | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | MN251 |
| MSN: | I8-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Beatrixkanaal canal at B.78 Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | B-78 Eindhoven NL |
Pilot aborted mission and returned to base due to engine problems, He opted to land downwind (25-30 MPH tailwind) and bomb laden causing him to come in at high speed. He touched down with 1200 feet of runway left but failed to stop and ran off the end of the runway crashing upside down in a canal. The pilot was unable to extricate himself, help could not reach him quickly enough, he perished in his partially submerged aircraft
Pilot was J/90713 P/O. Alfred William Edward Sugden (RCAF)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4769&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
440 Squadron RCAF war time records from DND archives microfilm
Personnel records from Archives Canada
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=90713&qand=&exc1=&exc2=
https://www.thetyphoonproject.org/440/Alfred%20William%20Edward-Sugden.html
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2232801?Alfred%20William%20Edward%20Sugden
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=440+sqd+rcaf&qand=&exc1=&exc2=
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 June 1944 | MN548 | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF | 1 | la Haie, La Vacquerie, Calvados |  |
w/o |
| 2 February 1945 | PD493 | 440 (City of Ottawa) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Between Legden and Coesfeld (NRW) |  |
w/o |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Oct-2019 16:50 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type] |
| 22-Oct-2019 16:53 | TigerTimon | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 24-Feb-2020 13:52 | Xindel XL | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |
| 05-Feb-2021 14:29 | tachel | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Feb-2021 14:31 | tachel | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Feb-2021 14:31 | tachel | Updated [Narrative] |
| 24-Jun-2022 22:08 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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