ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 308455
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| Date: | Friday 21 April 1944 |
| Time: | 00:40 |
| Type: |  North American Harvard II |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) |
| Registration: | 3230 |
| MSN: | 73-3504 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 4 mi W Willow Grove, ON -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RCAF Stn Dunnville, ON |
| RCAF Stn Dunnville, ON |
A NA Harvard II of No. 6 Service Flying Training School (6 SFTS) departed RCAF Stn Dunnville with an RAAF instructor pilot and an RCAF student. The instructor and student were on a dual pilot, night navigation exercise when the trainer crashed four miles west of Willow Grove, ON. Weather was reported as showers.
The AIB concluded that both the instructor and student were unable to maintain equilibrium by instruments or sensory aids in the night sky, thus causing them to lose control and crash. RAAF instructor pilot, P/O Kenneth E. Leigh and RCAF student pilot LAC Clyde C. Kendall, were killed.
Sources:
http://adf-serials.com.au/harvard.htm
https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12346/1692
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=RCAF%203230
https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/history/fallen-aviators/rcaf-casualties-second-world-war/kaechele-to-korbyl/
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