Airspeed AS.10 Oxford

While on a training sortie, the pilot encountered unknown technical problems and attempted to make an emergency landing in Ty’n-y-groes. The aircraft crash landed and was damaged beyond repair. The pilot was unhurt.

The crew was performing a training flight jointly with another AS.10 Oxford registered AS625 and carrying a crew of two as well. While cruising at an altitude of 1,200 feet, both aircraft collided in unknown circumstances. Out of control, they dove into the ground and crashed in a prairie. All four pilots were killed.
Crew (32nd SFTS):
LAC Svatopluk Malý, pilot,
LAC Alfred Charles Channon, pilot.

The crew was performing a training flight jointly with another AS.10 Oxford registered AS229 and carrying a crew of two as well. While cruising at an altitude of 1,200 feet, both aircraft collided in unknown circumstances. Out of control, they dove into the ground and crashed in a prairie. All four pilots were killed.
Crew (32nd SFTS):
F/O Benedikt Blatný, pilot,
P/O George Moffat Urwin, pilot.

The aircraft left RAF Ashbourne for a short test flight with one pilot and two passengers on board. En route, while cruising at a very low height, the twin engine aircraft hit power cables and crashed onto a small hill. All three occupants were killed.
Crew (42nd OTU):
F/O Archibald Douglas Vincent Forsyth, pilot.
Passengers:
Cpl Harry Garnet Sylvester,
LAC Harry Charles Halestrap.

During the early hours the 12th May 1943, the pilot took off for a night cross country flight from Wheaton Aston to the south west of Stafford. His route was to have been Wheaton Aston - Shawbury - Condover - Wheaton Aston, this triangular route was a distance of just over 50 miles. At some point, the pilot became disorientated, whether he missed one of his waypoints or saw one of the other airfields in the area is unknown, and ended up flying North East. As the sun was coming into view the aircraft was seen circling over Buxton, shortly afterwards the aircraft flew west into low cloud and struck a dry stone wall which runs the length of Burbage Edge. The stone wall destroyed the forward end of the aircraft killing the lone occupant, the aircraft broke up as it traveled across the moor land for another 30 to 40 yards.
Crew (11th AFU):
Sgt John Henry Langley Wilson.
Source:
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/peakdistrict/peakdistricteb717.htm

The crew was performing a training sortie from Sale Airport. En route, while cruising at an altitude of 2,000 feet, the twin engine aircraft entered a right turn when control was lost. The aircraft went into a spin and crashed into the sea 5 miles northeast of Seaspray. The wreckage was found some 400 meters off shore and all three crew members were killed.
Crew (3rd BGS):
F/Sgt Harry Alleyn Francis Dickinson,
LAC Vivian Arthur Westcott,
LAC Maurice White.

Crashed on landing. No casualties.

In unknown circumstances, the twin engine aircraft collided with a RAF Avro 683 Lancaster I registered L7545 and carrying a crew of seven. Both aircraft crashed in a field located two miles southeast of Melton Mowbray, killing all nine crew members on both aircraft.
Crew:
Sgt A. A. Moors,
Sgt Lemmerick.

The pilot was completing a solo training sortie from RAF Ossington. En route, he lost his orientation and while descending, the aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in a wooded area located in Matlock. The pilot was killed.
Crew (14th AFU):
Sgt George Howard McIlraith, pilot.

Crashed in unknown circumstances near Sutton, southeast of Macclesfield. Both crew members of the 1531st Battalion were killed.