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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Antwerpen:
Schoten

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Crash site of Mosquito HX916-SB-F
9/10/1943

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Unit: 464 Squadron
Aircraft: Mosquito
Code: HX916-SB-F
Base: Sculthorpe, Norfolk
Mission: Metz/Wolppy
Crew officer: Phillip Charles Copeland KERR
Incident: Crashed due bad weather conditions

Location: (Prov. Antwerpen)

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Facts

Missing (op.Metz/Wolppy) 9.10.1943. T/o between 11:05 hrs and 11:16 hrs piloted by Flt Lt Kerr, with 11 others, being one of two which failed to return. Poor weather encountered shortly after take-off resulted in aircraft becoming scattered and landing away from base on return to England.
Mosquito HX912 was last seen by the others in a shallow dive heading towards the cloud-covered target area. Later found to have crashed at Schoten, on the NE outskirts of Antwerp. Apparently the pilot accidentally dropped their bomb load while flying at very low level & the ensuing exposion destroyed the aircraft killing both crew members. Both very likely succumbed to the close proximity of bomb release to intercom button.

Sources:
Aviation Safety
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered
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