Aylesbury

The crew was engaged in a local training sortie in RAF Halton. While approaching the airbase from the northwest with one engine inoperative, the aircraft stalled from a height of 50 feet and crashed in a near vertical attitude in a field located one mile northwest of Aylesbury. All six occupants were killed.
W/Cdr Richard James Millet Bangay, pilot,
Cpl Cyril Alan Parfett,
AC1 G. A. Richardson,
AC1 J. Montgomery,
AC1 M. G. Prince,
AC2 J. Hendry.

The crew was engaged in a training sortie from RAF Halton. While cruising in marginal weather conditions, the twin engine aircraft hit the slope of a hill located 12 miles south of Aylesbury. All three crew members were killed and the aircraft was destroyed. It appears that the crew did not prepare the mission properly and failed to ask about meteorological conditions prior to the flight. The crew did not take advantage of their radio systems and at the time of the accident, radio contacts with local ATC based at RAF Halton were difficult.