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Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I in Stradbroke

Date & Time: Sep 3, 1941 at 0657 LT
Operator:
Registration:
AE203
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Scampton – Scampton
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 1950LT on September 2 on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following morning, it crash landed at Stradbroke. All four crew members escaped uninjured.
Crew:
Sgt J. Flint,
Sgt Combes,
Sgt Jardine,
F/S J. D. Gadsby.