Accident Vickers Wellington Mk IC W5666,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53371
 
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Date:Thursday 12 June 1941
Time:03:20 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic well model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration: W5666
MSN: BH-H
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:North Sea 100 km W of Texel, Noord-Holland -   United Kingdom
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Swinderby
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:06 hrs. The port engine was shot out by Flak over the target, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Crew of 6, P/O Stanis£aw Sedzik POW, Sgt Pilot Ludwik Maciej POW, F/O Navigator Walerian Sojka POW, Sgt gunner Wac£aw Weinberg POW, Sgt gunner Jozef Kruk- Schuster POW, Sgt (radio operator) Zygmunt Chowanski POW.

Sources:

Andrew Maciej, son of Ludwik Maciej, andrew.maciej@talktalk.net
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1052&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
13 April 1942 Z1213 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 5 Boekel - Venhorst; Noord-Brabant w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
15-Dec-2012 12:47 Andrew Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative]
12-Jan-2013 07:34 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport]
10-Jun-2019 12:03 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative]
11-Jun-2019 05:30 stehlik49 Updated [Operator]
04-Nov-2019 07:14 Anon. Updated [Operator, Operator]
15-Jun-2022 06:11 Ron Averes Updated [Location]
15-Jun-2022 06:55 Ron Averes Updated [Location]
23-Aug-2022 07:06 andrew.maciej@talkta Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Country, Source]

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