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Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I near Lichtenvoorde: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jan 28, 1942 at 2335 LT
Operator:
Registration:
AT122
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Coningsby - Coningsby
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Coningsby at 1800LT on an operations to Münster. Passing over the Netherlands, it crashed in unknown circumstances near Lichtenvoorde. All four crew members were killed.
Crew.
P/O Robert Vincent Selfe, pilot,
F/Sgt Joseph Alfred Jacobson, observer,
Sgt Duncan Edward Hodgkinson, wireless operator,
Sgt Sidney George Harding, air gunner.