Date & Time:
Jan 13, 1943 at 0440 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 424 Wellington IV
Operator:
Registration:
Z1272
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Hemswell - Hemswell
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
5
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 0330LT on a mine laying operation off Brest, France. A bit more than an hour into the flight, while cruising at night, the airplane flew into a tree and crashed in Barrowby. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O F. K. Krawczyk, pilot,
Sgt Karol Zygmunt Dutkiewicz,
P/O A. J. Plusa,
Sgt J. F. Laskowski,
Sgt S. Dorosz, air gunner.
Crew:
F/O F. K. Krawczyk, pilot,
Sgt Karol Zygmunt Dutkiewicz,
P/O A. J. Plusa,
Sgt J. F. Laskowski,
Sgt S. Dorosz, air gunner.
