Crash of a Short S.29 Stirling I in Helchteren: 8 killed
Date & Time:
Feb 14, 1943
Operator:
Registration:
BF448
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Bourn - Bourn
Crew on board:
8
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
8
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Bourn at 1825LT on an operation to Cologne. Over Belgium, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Helchteren. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Owen Cecil Chave, pilot,
Sgt Alfred Arthur Self,
Sgt James Falshaw Cook,
F/O John Neville Muir,
F/Sgt Lewis Lee Gladwin,
Sgt Thomas Frederick Stocks,
F/O William Alexander Archibald,
Sgt James Ernest Nicholls, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Lt Owen Cecil Chave, pilot,
Sgt Alfred Arthur Self,
Sgt James Falshaw Cook,
F/O John Neville Muir,
F/Sgt Lewis Lee Gladwin,
Sgt Thomas Frederick Stocks,
F/O William Alexander Archibald,
Sgt James Ernest Nicholls, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
