Date:	Thursday 27 June 1940
Time:	04:00 LT
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	50 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P1329
MSN:	VN-T
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, 25 km west of Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Aircraft was one of seven aircraft detailed to bomb Hannover-Langenhagen airfield. At 03.26 hours the aircraft sent a SOS message "Returning on one engine" with parts of message unreadable. At 03.59 hours a further message was received "Going Down". A fix taken at this time estimated its position as 15 miles East of Amsterdam at 53"20' N, 04"05' E. However the fix was second class so the aircraft may have crashed in enemy territory. One source gives the crash location as in the North Sea, 25 km west of Noordwijk, Netherlands. The fact that the bodies of some crew members were washed ashore gives credence to the "crashed into the North Sea" report.

All four crew perished:

Wing Commander N.D. Crockart (Pilot, age 31, Commanding Officer No. 50 Squadron, Service Number 32155): Killed in action 27/06/1940, Body Washed up near Callantsoog
Flight Sgt William Thomas Joseph Southey (Service Number 514566, aged 27): posted 27/06/1940 as missing, presumed killed in action. As no trace of him was ever found, he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Sgt. Allen John Dennis Ingham (Service Number 580958): killedin action 27/06/1940, Body Washed up Denmark 27/07/1940. Buried Norre Havrvig Churchyard
Sgt. Edward Howard MacKenzie Turner (Service Number 614601,aged 21) - posted 27/06/1940 as missing, presumed killed in action. As no trace of him was ever found, he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

The next day [27/06/1940] six Blenheims of 235 Squadron searched a 20 x 20 square mile area at 52.40N, 04.20 for survivors. No one was found.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/998: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502449
3. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0734&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
4. Casualty confirmation is from the No. 50 and 61 Association Roll of Honour document; crew list and event details from 50 Sq ORB, RAF Form 540/ 541, National Archives Kew.
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2620109/crockart,-norman-david/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1807689/southey,-william-thomas-joseph/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2271292/ingram,-allen-john-dennis/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1809118/turner,-eric-howard-mckenzie/
9. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/50_squadron.html#262706

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

12 April 1940	L4083	50 Sqn RAF	1	Mandal, Vest-Agder county, district of Sørlandet, near Kristiansand		w/o
15 October 1940	X2993	50 Sqn RAF	2	Kalbe an der Milde, Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Sachsen-Anhalt		w/o
10 November 1940	L4149	50 Sqn RAF	3	Mannheim Power Station, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg		w/o
29 July 1941	AE159	50 Sqn RAF	4	Missing		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
20-Sep-2012 23:22	al tocock	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
25-Sep-2012 01:30	Nepa	Updated [Time, Operator, Destination airport]
11-Dec-2017 13:40	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Aircraft type]
29-Jun-2018 20:51	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Nov-2018 18:54	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
24-Jun-2019 17:54	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
03-Oct-2019 23:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]