Accident Hawker Typhoon Mk IB MN599, Friday 29 September 1944
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Date:Friday 29 September 1944
Time:12:30 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic typh model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:182 Sqn RAF
Registration: MN599
MSN: XM-
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:south of the Looveer hamlet, Huissen, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Eindhoven (B.78)
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 11:50 hrs for an armed recce flight in the Emmerich (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) area.
The aircraft crashed east of the Dominican monastery at Huissen.
The 25-year-old RNzAF pilot, F/Sgt. T.S. Edwards, is missing in action and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial; panel 263.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4433&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=



Pilot: NZ422049 Flight Sergeant Thomas Sylvester Edwards, RNZAF
http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/cenotaph/RecordDetail.aspx?OriginalID=23401&SearchID=7982546&Ordinal=9
https://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=232822
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/232822/edwards,-thomas-sylvester/

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
07-Aug-2011 05:41 Anon. Updated [Source, ]
07-Aug-2011 05:41 Anon. Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, ]
26-Sep-2019 07:20 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]

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