Date:	Thursday 8 July 1943
Time:	05:40
Type:	Bristol Bolingbroke Mk IVT (Blenheim)
Owner/operator:	5 B & GS RCAF
Registration:	10072
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	3 miles north-east RCAF Dafoe, Saskatchewan -   Canada
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RCAF Dafoe, SK
Destination airport:

Narrative:
On 8 July 1943 P/O David Alexander Colvin RCAF took off in the morning for a routine gunnery exercise with the Bolingbroke 10072 of 5 Bombing and Gunnery School RCAF. At 05:40 hrs he made a tight turn and struck the drogue tow line. The aircraft went into a spin and crashed three miles north-east of the aerodrome at Dafoe, Saskatchewan. Colvin was killed with both RAF students on board, LAC Walter William Dorrell and LAC John Gordon Rix Harries.

War diary of 5 Bombing and Gunnery School RCAF (https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12334/865)
https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/history/fallen-aviators/rcaf-casualties-second-world-war/columbus-to-cornell/
http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_10050_10099_detailed.html
http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/16255.php
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCAF_Station_Dafoe
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=51.932778&lon=-104.566944&z=11&m=w
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 9 July 1943, page 3 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/508111250)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Jan-2018 19:01	TB	Added
09-Nov-2022 12:51	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative]
08-Jul-2023 08:08	Nepa	Updated [[Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative]]