Crash of an Airspeed AS.10 Oxford I off Aberystwyth: 3 killed

Date & Time: Oct 15, 1945 at 0200 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
PH480
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Brawdy - Brawdy
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The crew left RAF Brawdy in the evening on an experimental night radar meteorological research flight. Aircraft was due to overfly a marker dropped into the sea taking readings at 100 feet intervals up to 1,500 feet using a radar altimeter to secure accuracy. At 0200LT, while descending to 200 feet, the aircraft impacted the sea. No recovery of bodies or wreckage proved possible. Aircraft and crew were from the RAF Radar Meteorological Flight based at Defford, but detached to Brawdy for this particular sortie.
Crew:
F/Lt Daniel Joseph Cotter, pilot,
F/Sgt Arthur Edward Bedwell, navigator,
W/O Edward Moore, observer.
Source:
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/memorial/entry.php?id=164

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I off Aberystwyth: 2 killed

Date & Time: Aug 1, 1940 at 0630 LT
Operator:
Registration:
L4085
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington on a raid over enemy positions. While returning to its base, it crashed in unclear circumstances into the Cardigan Bay off Aberystwyth. Two crew members were rescued and two others were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Edward Deryck Farmer, pilot, †
Sgt R. D. Hobbs,
Sgt D. W. Seagar,
Sgt Cyril Edward Thomas Wood, wireless operator. †

Crash of an Avro 504K in Aberystwyth

Date & Time: Aug 28, 1919
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-EAHO
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
H1959
YOM:
1919
Region:
Crew on board:
1
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances and was damaged beyond repair. The pilot, sole on board, was rescued.