Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I near Ysselsteyn: 3 killed
Date & Time:
Sep 1, 1941 at 0200 LT
Operator:
Registration:
AE187
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Scampton – Scampton
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 2015LT on August 31 on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed near Ysselsteyn. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Adrian John Somerville-Woodiwis, pilot,
F/Sgt Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe, pilot,
Sgt James Hughes, wireless operator,
Sgt Robert Buist Scott, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Adrian John Somerville-Woodiwis, pilot,
F/Sgt Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe, pilot,
Sgt James Hughes, wireless operator,
Sgt Robert Buist Scott, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
