Date:	Sunday 22 February 1942
Time:	09:00
Type:	Cessna Crane I
Owner/operator:	12 SFTS RCAF
Registration:	7921
MSN:	1414
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Stifton, Manitoba -   Canada
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RCAF Dauphin
Destination airport:

Narrative:
At 0900 hrs on 22 February 1942 the Crane I 7921 of 12 Service Flying Training School RCAF crashed for an unknown reason 10 miles north-north-east of Dauphin aerodrome (home of 12 SFTS), near Sifton, Manitoba, and four miles north of Valley River. The student pilot, LAC Keith Francis Somerville, was flying solo practicing precautionary landings. Aircraft dove in and exploded. Somerville was killed and the aircraft was completely demolished.

War Diary of 12 Service Flying Training School RCAF, 22 February 1942 (available online at https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12348/190?r=0&s=4)
https://rcaf.info/rcaf-stations/manitoba-rcaf-stations/rcaf-station-dauphin/
http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_7900_7949_detailed.html
Ottawa Citizen, 25 February 1942, page 19 (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=QBJtjoHflPwC&dat=19420225&printsec=frontpage&hl=fr)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_River_(Manitoba)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifton,_Manitoba
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=51.360278&lon=-100.142500&z=11&m=w

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Feb-2018 19:23	TB	Added
22-Feb-2022 19:09	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
02-Mar-2022 21:50	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]