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| Date: | Sunday 23 February 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 11 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | T2388 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Myrosilon -
 Greece
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Larissa, Greece |
| Paramythia, Greece |
Took off from Larissa at 14:00hrs for a ferrying flight of maintenance personnel on detachment. Due to heavy icing over the Pindus Mountains the plane was unable to climb out of a ravine near Arta. Made a force landing in a riverbed but hit a tree and was wrecked.
Crew:
89776 P/O Alan David Petrie HEWISON - killed - Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece
365732 Sgt John Sturart DUKES - killed - Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece
Passengers:
533042 LAC Gordon BEVAN - killed - Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece
???????? LAC G.W. CAUSER - injured
???????? AC1 J.H. MCQEEUN - injured
???????? Cpl I. MCCRAE - uninjured
Sources:
1.Bomber Command Losses In the Middle East and Med. (Volume 1: 1939-1942) David Gunby & Pelham Temple, page 44
2.AIR81/5293
3.CWGC
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Sep-2025 09:10 | MMR | Added |
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