Ferry

Crashed on takeoff from Authier. The pilot, sole on board, was unhurt while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

While on a ferry flight from CGAS Biloxi to NAS Seattle for overhaul, the pilot reported an oil leak in the right engine. He then reported a single engine operation and requested an emergency clearance to Fort Worth. The aircraft proceeded out the north leg of the Fort Worth range where the other engine stopped due to an unknown cause, and the propeller was feathered. The aircraft emerged from the clouds in a spin to the left and impacted the ground. All seven crew members were killed and the aircraft was destroyed by impact forces.
Crew:
Lt Vaughn E. Salisbury,
Cpt Ernest C. Lindsey,
Ammc John E. Vallowe,
Arm1 William L. Hickman,
Amm2 George L. Proffitt,
Amm1 Oswald D. Jacobson,
Cpl Marion Higgins.

During the takeoff roll, the copilot retracted the landing gear prematurely and switched off the spotlights, without any authorization from the captain. When he tried to switch them on, the aircraft sank back onto the runway and landed on its belly. Then it skidded for several yards before coming to rest in flames. Three occupants were injured while three others were unhurt. The aircraft was written off.

The flight was scheduled from Prague to Stockholm-Bromma direct but while approaching the Swedish coast, the crew was forced to divert to Göteborg Airport due to poor weather conditions. All passengers disembarked in Göteborg and the crew continued to Bromma. On approach, the aircraft was too low and hit a wooded hill located in Stallarholmen, about 40 km west of the airfield. The aircraft was destroyed and all six crewmen were killed.

On the leg from Ashgabat to Chardzhou (now Türkmenabat) of a positioning flight from Ashgabat to Alma Ata for overhaul by ARM-405 when the right engine failed near Repetek. The pilot decided to go around on landing at Chardzhou as he was unable to make out the landing T, being blinded by flying against the sun, the aircraft lost height and speed while flying a left turn. The pilot did not cope with the situation so the aircraft collided with an irrigation canal and trees 4 km from the airfield, lost its landing gear, flaps and ailerons and crash landed. Both outer engines broke of. All seven occupants were unhurt.

The crew was performing a flight from Wormditt (now Orneta) to Insterburg (now Cherniakhovsk). Enroute, weather conditions worsened and the visibility was poor. Despite the situation, the crew decided to continue to Insterburg. At a too low altitude, the aircraft hit trees with its right wing and crashed in a wooded area located in Mulden (now Perevalovo). The wreckage was found three days later and all five crew members were killed.

About four minutes after takeoff from Lyon-Bron Airport, the right engine caught fire. The pilot attempted an emergency landing in a snow covered field but the aircraft collided with poplars and crashed, bursting into flames. While the aircraft was destroyed by fire, all five crew members evacuated safely. The crew was returning to his base following a bombing mission over Rhine bridges. It is believed that the aircraft may have been damaged by the German Flak during the operation. The crew was attached to the Groupe de Bombardement Moyen 2/63 Sénégal.
Crew:
Lt Willy Pinhede, pilot,
Lt Duwernell, copilot,
S/Lt Stoff, navigator,
Adj Sagazan, radio operator,
Victor Schoenenberger, flight engineer.

The aircraft was being ferried from Burtonwood to Hardwick by a two man ferry crew on the 11th October 1944, the two men took off in the aircraft from Burtonwood near Warrington at 1032LT. They set a course of 135° and climbed to an indicated altitude of 2,800 feet. At approximately 1045LT, while in cloud and moderate to severe turbulence, Lt Houpt spotted a small gap in the cloud and saw the ground was only about 150 feet below him. He then applied full power and began to climb, but before they could gain any meaningful height the aircraft struck the ground on Mill Hill some 1.5 mile from the Grouse Inn between Hayfield and Glossop. The two men extricated themselves from the shattered cockpit and walked along one of the streams until they reached the Hayfield to Glossop road. A passing lorry driver stopped and picked them up and took them to a nearby pub where Lt Houpt telephoned Burtonwood to report the accident. They were then retrieved by an Ambulance from Burtonwood and their injuries were then treated. These were mainly cuts & bruises but Lt Houpt did suffer a broken jaw.
Crew (310th FS):
2nd Lt Creighton R. Houpt, pilot,
S/Sgt Jerome M. Najvar, flight engineer.
Source & photo:
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/peakdistrict/peakdistrict42-52003.htm

En route, an engine suffered technical problems and the captain elected to ditch the aircraft. In unknown circumstances, the seaplane went out of control and crashed into the sea some 1,500 km east of the Marshall Islands. All four crew members were killed.

The crew was performing a ferry flight from Alma Ata to Kuybyshev with an intermediate stop in Semipalatinsk. En route, the pilot in command deviated from the prescribed flight path to the east in order to circumvent an area of poor weather and overflew high mountains. As he was unable to gain sufficient height, the three engine aircraft stalled and crashed at a height of some 2,700 meters into the steep wall of a gorge near a pass over the khrebet Dzhil-Dhuta mountain range (3,050 meters), about 15 km northwest of Koksu. All six occupants were killed.