Date & Time:
Apr 6, 1942 at 0210 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden
Operator:
Registration:
AT156
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Scampton - Scampton
Country:
Belgium
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
2
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 0015LT on an operation to Cologne. Passing over Belgium at an altitude of 14,500 feet, it was shot down by a German JU.88 fighter and crashed in Roly. Two crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O David Christie Kay, pilot,
Sgt Robert William Burdon Brown, observer, †
Sgt James Waddell, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt S. R. J. Ainger, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O David Christie Kay, pilot,
Sgt Robert William Burdon Brown, observer, †
Sgt James Waddell, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt S. R. J. Ainger, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
