Date:	Sunday 27 April 1941
Time:	10:07
Type:	Short Sunderland I
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	L5807
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	Kalafrana Bay -   Malta
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	-
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
Set alight by a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf.109 of 7./JG 26, believed to be flown by air ace Joachim Müncheberg. The flying boat sank.
The Sunderland had just arrived after escorting eight Hawker Hurricane's and a Fairey Fulmar to Malta.

Air Battle of Malta Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942 / A.Rogers, 2017
Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999
Aces of the Luftwaffe

photo (c) Steve Nye, collection of the Guildhall Museum, Rochester; Kalafrana Bay; 27 April 1941

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