Date:	Tuesday 12 September 1944
Time:
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PD262
MSN:	HA-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Flomborn, in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Methwold
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Lost after a mid air collision with Lancaster ME854 of 576 Squadron. Both crews perished.

Crew:
Pilot: Flight Lieutenant Howard Thomas SELLER (169729) RAFVR
2nd Pilot: Flying Officer Winston Leslie LEIBHARDT (419658) RAAF
Navigator: Flying Officer Graham Olaf Barratt SINCLAIR (136838) RAFVR
Bomb Aimer: Pilot Officer Donald Wallace CLARKE (J/86873) RCAF
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: Pilot Officer Henry CLARKE (184538) RAFVR
Air Gunner: Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles SPIERS (1581963) RAFVR
Air Gunner: Pilot Officer Clarence Alwin BLACK (415608) RAAF
Flight Engineer: Flight Sergeant William Henry Thomas PETTMAN (1803071) RAFVR

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
218 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
576 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=pd262&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Personnel file of P/O Clarke RCAF from Ancestry.ca (Archives Canada)
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=me854&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=PD262
https://218squadron.wordpress.com/avro-lancaster-mk-b-i-pd262/
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https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2042713

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Aug-2013 15:27	JINX	Added
15-Jan-2018 18:50	XindelX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
19-Oct-2023 20:14	tachel	Updated [[Aircraft type, Operator, Location]]