Short S.29 Stirling

The starboard engine failed while the airplane was lifting off the ground. The crew continued to climb when, at a height of 100 feet, the port outer engine failed as well. The airplane descended to the ground and crashed one mile from the airbase. All crew escaped uninjured.

The airplane departed RAF Oakington on April 30 on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following night, it ran out of fuel and crash landed in a wheatfield located at Hinton Lodge, three miles southeast of Halesworth. All seven crew members evacuated safely.
Crew:
F/L N. Williams,
Sgt W. T. Williams,
LAC R. C. Watkins,
Sgt C. T. Webb,
Sgt R. A. Pickers,
Sgt W. F. Hodson,
Sgt L. Smith.

The airplane departed RAF Oakington at 2150LT on April 20 on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base the following night, it was attacked by a German night fighter and crash landed in Stambourne. All seven crew members escaped uninjured.
Crew:
F/Lt R. A. Cruikshank,
Sgt R. S. Havery,
Sgt K. F. Wilson,
Sgt G. W. Smith,
Sgt J. McIntyre,
Sgt S. A. Hives,
Sgt E. Barratt.

The airplane departed RAF Newmarket at 2040LT on an operation to Berlin. While flying over Germany at night, it was shot down by the pilot of a German fighter and crashed in Lohne. Six crew members were killed and a seventh became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Victor Fernley Baker Pike, pilot, †
Sgt Clifford Sumner, pilot, †
F/Sgt Gordon Percy Carver Smith, observer, †
F/Sgt Anthony Charles Jupp, wireless operator, †
Sgt William Edward Osterfield, wireless operator, †
Sgt Alan James Whitby, wireless operator, †
LAC C. MacDonald.

The airplane departed RAF Newmarket in the evening of March 23 on an operation to Calais. While returning to base the following night, it caught fire for unknown reasons. While trying to make an emergency landing, the airplane collided with high tension cables then struck the roof of a house and crashed on Hazelwood Common near Leiston, bursting into flames. Six crew members were killed while a seventh was seriously injured. The only survivor died from injuries sustained on March 30.
Crew:
Sgt John Butterworth Clarke, wireless operator,
Sgt Philip Green, air gunner,
Sgt Antony John Roberts, pilot,
S/L Stuart Alistair Frederick Robertson, pilot,
Sgt Eric Victor Seymour, observer,
Sgt Gilbert Maurice Short, air gunner,
Sgt Frederick Ben White, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Oakington at 1843LT on March 2 on an operation to Brest. The following night, it crashed in unknown circumstances in The Channel, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
S/L John Martin Griffith-Jones,
P/O William Ian Dalgliesh,
P/O William Thomas Watkins,
Sgt Roger Hinton,
Sgt Robert Lee McCarthy,
Sgt John Stephen Legge,
LAC Walter John Richards,
Sgt Jack Nicholson Holdsworth.

The airplane was completing a training sortie, carrying seven crew members. While cruising at an altitude of 10,000 feet over the Isle of Man, the aircraft was hit in both port engines by antiaircraft fire. The pilot was able to cross the Irish Sea but was eventually forced to attempt an emergency landing. The aircraft crashed at Hodden Bridge, Barbon, slid into a stone wall and was wrecked. All seven crew members evacuated safely. First Stirling to be written off in Bomber Command service.
Crew:
F/Lt T. P. S. Bradley,
P/O J. W. Murray,
Sgt R. Jackson,
Sgt A. A. Griffin,
Sgt A. C. Nicholson,
Sgt E. Roberts,
AC1 J. F. Wood.

The crew was performing a local test flight on this first S.29 prototype. Following a smooth mission, the crew was returning to Rochester Airport. Upon landing, the undercarriage failed and the aircraft came to rest on its belly. All four occupants escaped uninjured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.