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Date: | Thursday 24 August 1950 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Airspeed Oxford Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 66 Gp CF RAF |
Registration: | PH311 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mount Crain Trench, near Lethnot, 3 miles North East of Rottol, Angus -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh |
Destination airport: | RAF Dyce, Aberdeen |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Written off (destroyed) 24 August 1950 due to a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain): The crew was performing a flight from RAF Turnhouse (Edinburgh) to RAF Dyce, Aberdeen. En-route, while cruising in clouds, the twin engine aircraft hit the slope of Mount Crain Trench, Glen Clova, located near Lethnot, 3 miles North East of Rottol, Angus (Forfarshire).
Both occupants were killed:
Crew (66 Group Communications Flight):
Flight Lieutenant Lister John Waugh (Pilot, Service Number 193375)
Squadron Leader Allan Laird Carrie (passenger, Service Number 84754, aged 50, airport manager).
Some wreckage - most notably the engines and the undercarriage legs - were still to be found at the crash site in 2014-15 (see links #5 & #6) ("There was no escape for the two occupants of an RAF aircraft that crashed nearby in 1950 on Cairn Trench in Glen Clova. The Airspeed Oxford PH311 came to earth on a flight from Turnhouse to Dyce aerodromes while cruising in cloud on 24th August. Flt. Lt. L. J. Waugh (pilot) and Squadron Leader A. L. Carrie (passenger) were killed. The radial engines can be found buried in the peat and a few other small pieces remain").
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.105 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain p.131)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.76
4. The Oxford, Consul & Envoy File (John F. Hamlin, Air Britain)
5.
http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/oxford_cairn-trench.htm 6.
http://www.wtdwhd.co.uk/Cairn%20Trench.html 7.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 8.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-airspeed-as10-oxford-i-lethnot-2-killed 9.
https://www.rauxaf.net/page130.html .
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Sep-2013 22:23 |
JINX |
Added |
27-Jul-2017 00:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
25-Nov-2018 16:02 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
05-Nov-2019 22:47 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
28-Dec-2020 23:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
28-Dec-2020 23:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
01-Mar-2021 01:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
25-Jun-2022 02:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Category] |