Date:	Friday 24 December 1943
Time:	13:15
Type:	Airspeed Oxford Mk II
Owner/operator:	410 (Cougar) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	BM837
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Winter Hill, near Bolton, Lancashire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Acklington, Northumberland
Destination airport:	RAF Coleby Grange, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Oxford BM837: Took off at 12:00 hrs from Doncaster for cross-country flight to Elswick near Preston. 24/12/1943
(Or also Flying from Acklington in Northumberland to Coleby Grange near Lincoln.)??
Visibility poor and low clouds but met reports said it would clear. Using map with route marked, he calculated he had reached an area where he could let down to 150 feet, but he was off course.
(He was somehow 90 miles off course.) He began descent through cloud, and crashed into a the northern slope of Winter Hill near Bolton, Lancashire at 13:15 hrs.
He destroyed the plane and suffering dangerous injuries.
Crew:
F/Lt (J/15807) Martin Anthony "CY" CYBULSKI DFC (pilot) RCAF - injured

1. http://laituk.org/Oxford%20BM837.htm
2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/maycontaintracesofnuts/4222491995/ [photo of crash site]
3. http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/pennines/airspeed-oxford-bm837-winter-hill/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)
5. http://www.daveweb.co.uk/whvol2.pdf
6. http://aircrashsites.co.uk/air-crash-sites-5/airspeed-oxford-bm837-on-winter-hill/

Flight Lieutenant M Cybulski (left) and Flying Officer H Ladbrook of No. 410 Squadron RCAF, with their damaged Mosquito Mk II at Coleby Grange, 27 September 1943

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Dec-2011 06:52	Dr. John Smith	Added
20-Jan-2012 12:53	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
30-Jan-2012 08:26	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
18-Sep-2014 19:09	weeks	Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative]
24-Dec-2015 11:06	Iwosh	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative]
28-Jul-2017 21:09	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
01-Aug-2017 21:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative]
01-Aug-2017 21:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
17-Dec-2021 18:57	Nepa	Updated [Time, Narrative, Operator]