Training

The crew was performing a training sortie from RAF Warboys. While cruising at low altitude in poor visibility, the twin engine aircraft hit the slope of Mt Rushup Edge located southwest of Edale. The aircraft was destroyed and all four crew members were injured.
Crew (PFNT):
F/Lt Brian Gipson, pilot,
F/Lt Douglas Ivor Jones, copilot,
F/Lt William John Barclay, navigator,
F/O Victor Percival Skone-Rees, bomber.

The crew was completing a training mission at Bairnsdale Airport. On final approach, the twin engine aircraft crashed 500 yards short of runway threshold. A crew member was killed while three others were injured.
Crew:
Sgt M. Lawrence, †
W/O J. K. Phillips,
F/O W. L. Haynes,
Sgt E. J. Richardson.

Low on fuel while conducting a night training mission in poor weather conditions, the aircraft crashed 2 miles north of Rosedale. A crew members was killed while three others were injured. Sgt. D.J. McLeod parachuted at low altitude and died.
Testimony from the pilot:
The cause of the crash (which the Court of Enquiry called a phenomenon of the weather) was a low cloud bank, right down to the deck, up to about 2000 feet which rolled in from the sea enveloping our base at Bairnsdale, which is near the coast. The 13 aircraft engaged in this night navigation exercise were out at sea. My crash was caused by the lack of fuel. I was the first to take off that night and was about 100 miles from the coast when I sent a signal to base reporting that weather conditions prevented some parts of the navigation procedures being carried out. Base notified all aircraft to return to base. Probably about half of them were able to land at Bairnsdale. After exploring every option available to me the only hope was to bail out because Eastern Victoria was completely covered. So I was about to climb to 5000 feet when we saw a hole in the clouds and a row of lights which could have been a flare path. After checking the fuel and the time we had been in the air I calculated that I still had 30 minutes of fuel which was sufficient to investigate. The lights proved to be a stationary train. I immediately started to climb out when the starboard motor cut at about 2000 feet above sea level. The crew managed to bail out just before the port motor cut. I went into crash landing procedure hitting four trees and losing a large section of one wing and a portion of the other. The aircraft was a write off.
Crew:
F/Sgt Kevin M. Moloney, pilot,
Sgt D. J. McLeod, †
G. S. Liles,
P/O A. M. Ward.
Source: http://www.ozatwar.com/ozcrashes/vic141.htm

On approach to RAF Church Lawford, the twin engine aircraft was too low, hit tree tops and crashed in a wooded area. Both crew members were killed.
Crew (1533 BAT):
W/O Frank Needham, pilot,
Sgt Eric Kershaw, pilot.

The crew left Lawrenceville-George AAF in the evening on a night training mission with paratroopers. In flight, the crew encountered engine problems, left the formation (was taking part to an exercise with 20 other USAAF C-47) and eventually lost control of the aircraft that crashed in a field located 4 miles east of Oblong. Four crew members were killed. It is believed that the crew misinterpreted the engine problem as a runaway propeller.
Crew:
2nd Lt Alexander Cairney,
2nd Lt Monte R. Hamilton,
Pfc Clarence C. Orr 1.

The crew was performing a night training mission at Tocumwal Airport. On final approach, the aircraft crashed in a desert area located one mile east of the airport, lost its four engines and came to rest. Two crew members were killed.
Crew (7th OTU):
F/O G. N. Broughton, pilot,
W/O Allen Leslie Jones, †
Sgt Raymond Dalwood Johnston. †
Source: http://www.ozatwar.com/nsw05.htm

The crew was performing a night training exercise when approaching Lyons, an engine failed, forcing the captain to divert to Lyons-Bron Airport to attempt an emergency landing. Due to low visibility, the crew completed several circuits over Lyons when the aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in the district of Terraillon, near Bron. A crew member was injured while eight others were killed.
Crew (857th Squadron):
Sgt Mose C. Boren Jr., air gunner,
2nd Lt Merrill Burt, copilot,
2nd Lt Charles H. Edwards, pilot,
F/O Edwin London, bomber,
Sgt James D. Matthews, flight engineer,
Sgt James O. Melotte, radio operator,
2nd Lt Gerard L. Roy, navigator,
Sgt John L. Strickey, air gunner,
Sgt Russell G. Wolfersberger Jr, air gunner.

On final approach, the crew decided to perform a go around. For unknown reason, the twin engine aircraft overshot, hit tree tops located at the end of the runway and crashed in flames in a wooded area. Both pilots were killed.
Crew (18th PAFU):
F/O Albert William John Lyons, pilot,
F/O Alexander Stephen Lees, pilot.

While flying in a snowstorm, the twin engine aircraft hit the slope of Mt Turf Law located in the Lammermuir Hills, Huddingtonshire. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Ronald Cameron Ferguson, pilot,
F/Lt Václav Jícha, pilot,
F/O Arthur Scarlett Davidson, flight engineer.

During a training mission, the twin engine aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in an open field. All four crew members were killed.
Crew (3rd AFU):
F/Sgt Leslie Wall, pilot,
P/O John Henry Young, observer,
F/Sgt Thomas James Reardon, wireless operator,
Sgt Wallace Joseph Holberry, bomber.