Training

The twin engine aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances in the vicinity of the Claresholm Airfield, Alberta. All three crew members were killed.
Crew (15th SFTS):
F/Sgt J. C. McKittrick, pilot and instructor,
LAC L. H. B. Bennett, student pilot,
LAC A. R. Baker, student pilot.

The aircraft left Walla Walla Airport for a training exercise. En route, the aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a field located near Touchet. All 12 occupants were killed.

Shortly after take off from RAF Swinderby, while in initial climb, the twin engine aircraft went out of control and crashed in a field located in Normanton-on-Trent. All three crew members, Polish citizens, were killed. They were engaged in a night training exercise.
Crew (16th SFTS):
W/O Stanislaw Mierniczek,
F/Sgt Bogdan Koper,
LAC Ignacy Tomarzewki.

The crew was engaged in a training exercise in the region of Las Vegas. En route, the pilot was instructed to modify his route and to abandon the exercise to locate a reported parachute in the region of the Mt Charleston. In unknown circumstances, the twin engine aircraft hit a mountain slope west of Las Vegas, in the Charleston Mountain Range. The wreckage was found a day later. All six occupants were killed.
Crew:
Lt Frank P. Smith, pilot,
Beverly Jean Moses, copilot, 4.

The aircraft left RAF Lichfield at 1830LT on a training exercise. In flight, while cruising at an altitude of 9,000 feet, a propeller blade broke off from the starboard engine. Severe vibrations developed on the engine that fell off shortly later. The crew decided to abandon the aircraft and bailed out. Out of control, the aircraft dove into the ground and crashed in a field located in Marchington, some 3 miles southeast of Uttoxeter. It was destroyed while all five crew members were unhurt.
Crew (27th OTU):
F/Sgt John Sutherland Walker, pilot,
P/O John Strange East, navigator,
Sgt Joseph Arthur Barnard, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Harry Kearsley Chamberlain, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Brian Joseph Mordecai, air gunner.

Crew was engaged in a training flight in the vicinity of the Maputo International Airport. In flight, crew lost control of the aircraft that crashed on a beach in Costa do Sol, west of the airport. Both pilots Lino Augusto da Conceição and Manuel Duarte were injured.

The crew was engaged in a night training flight. While cruising at an altitude of 3,000 feet, the twin engine aircraft hit the east slope of Mt Foel Fras near Carneddau. Rescuers arrived on the scene around 0830LT and four crew members were evacuated while the instructor was killed.
Crew (8th AFU):
F/S Alan Biffen, pilot,
F/S Albert Francis Standring, wireless operator and instructor, †
P/O Victor Joseph Sibthorpe, navigator,
Sgt Dalton, air bomber,
Sgt Lorrimer, wireless operator.

The crew left Syracuse Airport at 2039LT for a training exercise. Without proper permission, the crew modified his schedule and diverted to Niagara Falls prior and back. While flying over the Oneida Lake at low height, the aircraft went out of control and crashed into the lake some 1,600 meters off Constantia. The aircraft sunk by three meters deep and all three occupants were killed.

While flying around the RCAF Jarvis, the twin engine aircraft went out of control and crashed in a field just after the crew dropped a flare at low height. The aircraft was destroyed and all three occupants were killed.
Crew (1st Bombing & Gunnery School):
F/S J. B. Watts 2.

The crew was performing a training mission from Dartmouth to Chatham (Miramichi Airport) with an intermediate stop in Goose Bay. Just after liftoff, while in initial climb, the twin engine aircraft stalled and crashed in flames. All eleven occupants were killed.
Crew:
P/O William A. Harris,
P/O John C. Tanner.
Passengers:
Lac Harold A. Stephenson,
Lac Henry H. Bell,
Lac William G. Leard,
A/C Lionel C. Saint Louis,
Cpl Louis C. Foris,
Cpl Clarence N. Cole,
Sgt Myles E. Duquette,
Won Melville S. Wood,
P/O Donald W. Hume.