Avro 652 Anson

The crew were on a night navigation exercise from RAF Wigtown, they were returning to their base but overshot on a northerly heading and flew into high ground to the North of Newton Stewart at around 22:00. After it failed to return to Wigtown the aircraft was declared overdue. At 00:30 on the 2nd September the station's Medical Officer was informed and he assembled a search party. They met with the local Police in Newton Stewart to begin searching at first light. The search teams located the crash site at 12:30, by that time Sgt Crosby had, despite head injuries and a broken bone in his right foot, been able to make his own way off the hill, arriving at Craigencallie.
Crew (1st AFU):
Sgt Ronald Hunter McArthur, pilot,
Sgt Manning, navigator,
Sgt Crosby, wireless operator,
Sgt Sidney Arthur Bussey, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt Jack Arthur Coombes, wireless operator and air gunner. †
Source:
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/scotland/scotlandn5032.htm

After touchdown, the twin engine aircraft was unable to stop within the remaining distance, overran and came to rest against trees. All four occupants were slightly injured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. The Crew was returning to RAF Halfpenny Green following a supply mission.

The crew where on a daytime navigation training flight from Llandwrog near Caernarvon, during the the return leg from Shrewsbury while in cloud, and shortly before 10:30 am, the pilot saw a sheep go by beneath him. He pulled the control yoke back in an instinctive effort to climb and successfully stalled the aircraft onto the rising ground but struck a large rock which spun the aircraft so it ended up facing downhill. Fortunately for the crew the fuselage remained intact, this was shown in a photograph published in 'Legend of Llandwrog', but the wing that hit the rock was destroyed, this is shown in 'No Landing Place' on page 41. After the crash the crew were able to transmit a wireless message to Llandwrog to report that they had crashed, using the Direction Finding equipment at the airfield the Flying Control Officer was able to estimate its position somewhere in the vicinity of Tal y Fan. However before a better fix could be made the remaining life in the aircraft's battery was exhausted, though the crew were advised to fire a red flare every half hour to aid the Mountain Rescue crew who departed base at 11:00. They drove their vehicles up the track from Rowen that runs around the southern side of Tal y Fan. However this track became narrow with overhanging trees and large boulders which caused some trouble for the team. Two flares were seen from towards Llyn Dulyn, but these had been fired by an 'Army Battle Unit' who were training in the area. They were also brought into the search and after only a short time reported sighting a crashed aircraft high up on Foel Fras. The Mountain Rescue Service then proceeded up the Dulyn valley and when they reached farm at Tan y Bwlch spotted a lift raft and the five crew with the aircraft. The crash site was reached at 15:00 and the crew were quickly evacuated from the site and were taken back to the Station Sick Quarters for medical assessment.
Crew (9th AFU):
Sgt Arthur Bickerdike, pilot,
P/O Oswald Ian Hamilton Stoeckel, navigator,
Sgt Laurence Tommie, wireless operator,
Sgt G. Martin, navigator 1.
Source:
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/wales/walesn5371.htm

The crew was completing a training sortie from Patricia Bay on behalf of the 32nd OTU. En route, the right engine failed, forcing the crew to ditch the aircraft about 250 km southwest of Vancouver (48°10'00.0"N 126°09'00.0"W). All three crew members were rescued while the aircraft sank and was lost.

The crew was engaged in a night training flight and left the RAF Brampton in the early evening on a combined exercise with three other similar aircraft. En route, the crew encountered low visibility, marginal weather conditions and strong winds, which caused the aircraft to be off the intended course when it struck the summit of Mt Green Gable. Two crew members were killed while three others were injured.
Crew:
Sgt Waclaw Panasik, pilot, †
F/Sgt Ervin Albert Loppe, air bomber, †
F/O John Philip Sargent Calder, navigator,
P/O Charles Edward Peake, navigator,
Sgt Geoffrey Montague Chowney, wireless operator.

The crew was engaged in a night training flight and left the RAF Brampton in the early evening on a combined exercise with three other similar aircraft. En route, the crew encountered low visibility, marginal weather conditions and strong winds, which caused the aircraft to drift off the intended course when it struck the summit of Mt Scafell Pike. The wreckage was found two days later and all five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Stanislaw Kowalczyk, pilot,
Sgt John Taylor Chadwick, navigator,
Sgt Thomas William Pickering, bomb aimer,
Sgt Robert Stanley Deason, navigator,
Sgt Thomas Scorer Wheatley Lawson, wireless operator and air gunner.

The crew was engaged in a night training flight and left the RAF Brampton in the early evening on a combined exercise with three other similar aircraft. En route, the crew encountered low visibility, marginal weather conditions and strong winds, which caused the aircraft to be off the intended course when it struck the summit of a hill with its right wing and crashed. All five crew members were injured and evacuated while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
Crew:
Sgt John Maurice Couling, pilot,
P/O George Douglas Eakins, observer 3.

The crew was engaged in a night training flight and left the RAF Brampton in the early evening on a combined exercise with three other similar aircraft. En route, the crew encountered low visibility, marginal weather conditions and strong winds, which caused the aircraft to be off the intended course when it struck the summit of Mt Great Dodd. All five crew members were injured and evacuated while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. Few hours later, the pilot died from his injuries.
Crew:
Sgt Waclaw Mackiewicz, pilot, †
Sgt John Convery,
Sgt Foster Wilson,
Sgt McAdory,
Sgt John Charles Eaton.

On approach to RAF Kirkbride, the twin engine aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Silloth. While both crew members were rescued, the aircraft sank and was lost.

While completing a training sortie, the pilot became lost. Due to fuel exhaustion, he was forced to attempt an emergency landing on a beach located in Coffs Harbour. While all four crew members were rescued, the aircraft was lost. The accident occurred after a flight of almost 6 ½ hours, two hours beyond the accepted endurance.
Crew:
F/O James M. Swann, pilot,
A. H. Morton, wireless operator and air gunner 2.