ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 204175
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| Date: | Friday 5 June 1942 |
| Time: | 23:25 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W7669 |
| MSN: | EY- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Croft, North Yorkshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Croft, Cheshire |
| RAF Croft |
Soon after leaving the airfield the port inner engine caught fire, the crew jettisoned the bombs, the pilot turned the aircraft around and into the airfield's landing circuit to go around and land. While he was lining up with the runway the port wing dropped and the aircraft stalled and with little height to recover the aircraft dived into the ground some four hundred yards south of Dalton on Tees, only four minutes after taking off. Sadly three of the crew were killed and the other four sustained injuries. The fire in the engine was believed to have started because of a glycol leak.
Crew
Pilot:100577 Fg Off Harold Ernest Bedford - Upton-cum-Chalvey (St Mary) Churchyard Slough, Buckinghamshire.
Flight Engineer:619222 Sgt Vincent George Musselwhite - Cheriton (St Michael) Churchyard Hampshire.
Navigator:107921 Plt Off Frank Eric Alder - Injured.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:984531 Sgt James O'Rourke - Ardrossan Cemetery Ayrshire Sec. B. Mid. West Div. Grave 290A.
Sgt W L Turner - Injured.
Sgt Phillips - Injured.
Air Gunner: Sgt Meller - Injured.
Sources:
Aircraft Accidents In Yorkshire
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 April 1942 | R9427 | 78 Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | |
w/o |
| 4 May 1942 | R9391 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | Missing - North Sea 20km North of Juist |  |
mis |
| 4 May 1942 | W7662 | 78 Sqn RAF | 6 | Südergellersen, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 31 May 1942 | W1013 | 78 Sqn RAF | 2 | near March, Cambridgeshire, England | |
w/o |
| Mid-air collision | ||||||
| 2 June 1942 | R9364 | 78 Sqn RAF | 4 | North Sea, off Dutch coast (at 52.02N,03.51E) |  |
w/o |
| 20 June 1942 | BB200 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea SW of Danish Coast |  |
mis |
| 30 June 1942 | W1062 | 78 Sqn RAF | 1 | RAF Docking, Norfolk, England | |
w/o |
| 17 April 1943 | DT773 | 78 Sqn RAF | 1 | crashed into empty Max Eyth Lake, Stuttgart-Hofen, Baden-Württemberg | |
w/o |
| 5 May 1943 | JB903 | 78 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea 20 km SW of Harlingen or 20 km NW of Vlieland, Friesland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Jan-2018 15:24 | Red Dragon | Added |
| 11-Nov-2018 13:57 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 26-Feb-2024 17:03 | Anon. | Updated [Location] |
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