Bahamas

The crew was on his way from Morrison AFB (West Palm Beach, Florida) to Borinquen, Porto Rico, as the aircraft should be delivered in Algiers, Algeria. En route, while cruising off The Bahamas Islands, pilot was forced to ditch the aircraft for unknown reason. A crew member was killed while all four others were rescued.

The airplane departed Nassau Airport on a local training flight. After takeoff, it caught fire for unknown reasons and dove into the sea, crashing into the Clifton Bay, west of Nassau. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Roland Henry Barber, pilot,
F/O Douglas Waitt Whitehurst Cormack, pilot,
F/O Denis Durward, pilot,
F/L John Griffith Owen, pilot.

The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Bannerman Town, South Eleuthera. All five crew members were rescued.

The airplane departed Nassau Airport on an anti-submarine exercise with six crew members on board. The crew reported his position over Great Sale Cay and requested permission for descent through exercise. It is believed that the pilot-in-command lost control of the airplane that crashed into the sea some 8 km southwest off Clifton Bluff. No trace of the wreckage was found and all six crew members, one RAAF and five RCAF were considered as deceased.

The following test was found from RAF record books:

B-25 FR-383 DX airborne for Anti-Submarine Patrol Number 3, sent signal reporting position over Great Sale Cay, requested permission for descent through cloud exercise. Then aircraft failed to reply to signal to commence, exercise, was not heard again, failed to return to base, so overdue, action was taken. Four aircraft dispatched to search waters adjacent to island. B-25 FV-946 FF is airborne to search for missing aircraft 3 nm southwest of Main Field, when smoke is sighted through the trees, crew caught sight of wrecked plane in the area, circled aircraft found to be a Baltimore aircraft, signal sent to base conveying this information. Aircraft continued search, oil patch was sighted, patch was 50 yards wide and seemed to extend in an up wind direction, aircraft returned to base and the Captain gave fuller details to the Controller on the information passed. The Marine 216 Craft at Lyford Cay was ordered to put to sea to investigate the oil patches, aircraft set course for the position of the oil patch, aircraft passed the coast, the ASR launch from Lyford Cay was seen heading towards the oil patch, aircraft was directly over the oil patch, and a smoke float was dropped, aircraft flew to the launch and headed it towards the patch, and then dived to 100 feet over the patch, continued to search the oil patch, and the launch was observed to have reduced speed and to be proceeding to the southeast up the patch. Instructions were received to continue the search of the area, and a sailing vessel was observed 4 nm to the north of the patch, heading towards Nassau. Aircraft landed back with nothing further to report. B-25 FR-393 DF is airborne to search south of the island to a distance of 15 nm off shore for oil patch, aircraft circled to investigate, message was received from base, message was sent to base that the ASR launch was standing by and that the aircraft was over the oil patch, oil patch extended 3 miles in length in a west-to-east direction, patch appeared to extend up wind from narrow end, no sign of a dinghy, survivors or wreckage. Aircraft remained over patch for 45 minutes, a constant series of orange flashes were seen emerging from two points near the narrow point of the oil patch, flashes appeared to be on the surface and appeared frequently, but at irregular intervals, message was sent to base that the aircraft was returning. The ASR boat was still standing by. Aircraft landed back with nothing further to report whilst the aircraft was over oil patch, it was joined by two other aircraft. B-25 FV-949 FD is airborne to search for the missing aircraft on receipt of a signal from base to search in the area of the oil patch, the aircraft proceeded to the reported position and observed two other aircraft in the vicinity. The ASR launch was seen to be searching the oil patch series of yellow flashes on the surface of water appearing at the easterly end of the oil patch; these are presumed to be smoke floats, and the aircraft returned to base.

The airplane assigned to 111 OTU departed Nassau-Oakes Field at 1445LT. Radio communications were lost at 1515LT after the aircraft crashed into the sea, about 3,5 NM off Old Fort Bay. The dinghy was found empty and no trace from the crew was ever found.
Crew:
P/O William Lorne Stinson,
Sgt Arthur Joseph Beaulieu,
Sgt James Brian Keayes,
Sgt Carl Eric Ogren,
Sgt Charles Leslie Herbert Snart,
Sgt Arthur William Torrens,
Sgt Thomas Wallace.

The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Great Inagua Island. All three crew members (Clark, Bunch and Murray) were rescued while the airplane sank and was lost.

The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Great Inagua Island. Two crew members (Inman and Mitchell) were killed and two others were rescued.

Crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off the Great Inagua Island. Crew fate remains unknown.

The crew departed Morrison AFB (Pam Beach) at 0830LT on a ferry flight to Borinquen, Porto Rico. En route, the crew attempted to transfer fuel from the auxiliary tanks but the process failed because the fuel transfer mechanism would not function properly. As there was insufficient fuel in the main tank, the crew decided to bail out and abandoned the aircraft that entered a dive and crashed on Acklins Island, bursting into flames. All four crew members were uninjured.
Crew:
Jesse F. Hunt,
Arnold Stern,
Billy R. Williams,
Ralph E. Stevens.

Thanks to Eric Wiberg and Michael Stowe for information provided.

The crew departed Nassau on a local night training cession. While flying at low height, the airplane crashed onto a house located in Delaport, some 7 km northeast of the airfield. All four crew members escaped uninjured while three people in the house were killed.