Airborne 00:35 hrs for an operation to Essen in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin & Feldwebel Friedrich Johrden of the Stab II./NJG 1, who had left St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in a Bf 110.
Initially all the crew were buried at St Truiden on 8 April 1942. After the war they were all re-interred in Heverlee War Cemtery
