Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I near Dunbar

Date & Time: Oct 3, 1940 at 0200 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden
Operator:
Registration:
X2896
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Lindholme - Lindholme
Location:
Dunbar
East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lindholme at 1840LT on October 2 on an operation to Hamburg. While returning at night, it crashed in a dummy flare-path at Woodhall Innerwick, some four miles southeast of Dunbar. All four crew members were rescues, one was injured.
Crew:
P/O E. M. Thwaites,
P/O R. S. Hook,
Sgt Day,
Sgt E. S. Smith.

Crash of a Heinkel He.111H3 off Dunbar: 1 killed

Date & Time: Jun 26, 1940 at 0140 LT
Type of aircraft:
Heinkel He.111
Operator:
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Military
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Lake, Sea, Ocean, River
Schedule:
Wittmundhafen - Wittmundhafen
Location:
Dunbar
East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The crew departed Wittmundhafen with Edinburgh as his target. While approaching the British coast at night, the aircraft was attacked by the pilot of an RAF Spitfire. With an engine on fire, the pilot ditched the aircraft off Dunbar. Three crew members were rescued while the pilot H. Schwilden was killed. The aircraft sank and was lost.
Crew:
Hptm H. Schwilden +3.
Probable cause:
Shot down by an RAF fighter.
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