Criminal Occurrence description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 04 APR 1943 |
| Time: | 01:38 |
| Type: | Lockheed 18-10 Lodestar (C-56B-LO) |
| Operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-AGEJ |
| C/n / msn: | 18-2085 |
| First flight: | 1941 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 50 km (31.3 mls) NW off Skagen, Denmark [North Sea] (Atlantic Ocean) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
The Lodestar was shot down by a German Dornier Do 217 or Messerschmitt Me 110.
Sources:
» RAF Nordic casuality register / by Knut Larsson
» The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
