ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 213639
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Date: | Sunday 5 January 1941 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | X3143 |
MSN: | VN-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Lindholme, North Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Lindholme, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Lindholme, North Yorkshire |
Narrative:Handley Page Hampden Mk.I X3143 (VN-Q) of 50 Squadron, RAF Lindholme. Written off (damaged beyond repair) on 2/1/1941 in a landing accident at Lindholme (Target: Bremen). No casualties report among the crew of four. According to the 50 Squadron ORB (Air Ministry Form 540):
"1/2 January 1941
A night bombing mission.
Met report: snow and low cloud across the country.
10 a/c detailed to attack A.2, oil refinery and food stocks at Bremen. Conditions at home base were poor with low cloud and fog down to 600 feet. Hampden Mk.I X3143 (VN-Q) took off at 16:49 on the afternoon of 1/1/1941 from Lindholme, and crashed on landing early in the morning of 2/1/1941 in the snow-covered overshoot area at RAF Lindholme after completing its mission, with landing gear being deliberately raised to halt the aircraft.
One crew member, Wireless Op/Air Gunner 638755 Sgt. Alfred Bryan Brooks RAF was slightly injured. Pilot Pilot Officer Thomas Noel Challoner Burrough RAFVR/84274, 2nd Pilot Pilot Officer Philip Booth Hodgson RAFVR/83725 ((NCO:754464 Commission Gazetted : Friday 13 September, 1940)) and Wireless Op/Air Gunner Sgt Russell Hobson ll RAF were un-injured, but X3143 was a total wreck". Sgt Brooks's DFM was Gazetted on 23rd September 1941.
Sources:
1.
http://www.no-50-and-no-61-squadrons-association.co.uk/app/download/5802508903/50+SQUADRON+ORB+1939+1943+Revision+1.pdf 2. 50 Squadron RAF ORB January 1941:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8451210 3.
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/25659-X31431941-01-02.html 5. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Jul-2018 21:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
12-Nov-2018 19:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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