Linton-on-Ouse AFB

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Z6465

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Airport (less than 10 km from airport)

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Linton-on-Ouse - Lonton-on-Ouse

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1977

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1940

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The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1805LT on March 2 on an operation to Brest. At 2350LT, the crew was called to abandon the sortie and to return to base. At 0156LT the following night, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances near RAF Ternhill, bursting into flames. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Stanley Victor Bunn, pilot,
Sgt Thomas James Thurling, pilot,
Sgt Harold Gordon, observer,
Sgt Herbert Frederick Jennings, wireless operator,
Sgt Kenneth Wright, wireless operator.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V in Wishaw

Date & Time: Feb 12, 1941 at 0445 LT

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T4322

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1955

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1940

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The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1835LT on February 11 on an operation to Bremen. While returning to base the following night, it ran out of fuel and was abandoned by the crew over Scotland. It crashed in Wishaw, southeast of Glasgow, and was destroyed. All five crew members were uninjured.
Crew:
Sgt H. J. Walters,
Sgt A. Sayner,
Sgt D. G. Halliday,
Sgt T. J. Thurling,
Sgt G. B. Boreham.

Probable cause:

Fuel exhaustion.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V near RAF Fulbeck

Date & Time: Feb 12, 1941 at 0330 LT

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T4213

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Linton-on-Ouse - Linton-on-Ouse

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1886

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1940

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The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1830LT on February 11 on an operation to Bremen. While returning to base the following night, the crew abandoned the airplane that crashed near RAF Fulbeck. All five crew members were uninjured.
Crew:
P/O R. M. Carrapiett,
Sgt W. F. Keatley,
Sgt R. M. Bell,
Sgt W. A. Fullerton,
Sgt P. C. Morgan.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V in Anna Paulowna

Date & Time: Jan 16, 1941 at 2115 LT

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Z6462

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Linton-on-Ouse - Linton-on-Ouse

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1974

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1940

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The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1745LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. While flying over the Netherlands at night, it was shot down by the German Flak and crash landed in Anna Paulowna. All five crew members became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Albert Ernest Barlow,
F/O John Henry Frampton,
Sgt Richard Phillip London,
Sgt C. H. Steven,
Sgt Ronald Malcolm Wade.

Probable cause:

Shot down by the German Flak.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V near Callantsoog: 5 killed

Date & Time: Jan 15, 1941 at 2246 LT

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Registration:

N1521

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Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax I

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Plain, Valley

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Linton-on-Ouse - Linton-on-Ouse

MSN:

1649

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1939

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The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1755LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. While flying over the Netherlands at night, it was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed near Callantsoog. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O William Edgar Peers, pilot,
Sgt Howard Piper Shipley, pilot,
P/O Melville Percy Griffiths, observer,
Sgt Robert James Couser, wireless operator,
Sgt Robert Fortune Jamieson Duncan, wireless operator.

Probable cause:

Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax I in Baldersby Saint James: 6 killed

Date & Time: Jan 13, 1941 at 1153 LT

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L9487

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Test

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Plain, Valley

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Linton-on-Ouse - Linton-on-Ouse

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Baldersby Saint James

North Yorkshire

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United Kingdom

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Europe

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The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1120LT for a fuel consumption test and a measured climb to 12,000 feet. Shortly before noon, while cruising at an altitude of 8,000 feet with its undercarriage down, the bomber was seen with trailing smoke and flames. It entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in an open field located in Howefield House, near Baldersby St James. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Michael Thomas Gibson Henry, pilot,
P/O Leslie Joseph McDonald, pilot,
Sgt John Naoier Hall, observer,
Sgt Francis Leslie Plowman, flight engineer,
Sgt Anthony Charles Henry Reid Russell, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt William Charles Browne Jesse, wireless operator and air gunner.

Probable cause:

The cause of the fire was blamed on the failure of groundcrew at Linton on Ouse to put the fuel-filler cap back on one of the port fuel tanks after it had been refuelled. The vapour seen behind the port wing would also certainly have been fuel, which, by the time it ignited had soaked into the tail section of the aircraft. Also of note is that the port outer engine had been suffering trouble since its delivery. It suffered a coolant leak on 3 December 1940 which resulted in a new radiator being fitted and then the same engine showed low oil pressure, it was run-up on 24 December 1940 and a new oil relief valve had to be fitted. Following the crash all the engines were removed and taken away for inspection and this engine was found to have suffered an oil shortage in the air prior to the crash, part of the crankshaft had broken causing the failure of the engine. Further investigation of other early Halifaxes found that this was a design problem. When full of fuel and in a tail-down position the oil pumps on the outer engines were above the oil level. This oil system was later changed to stop the problem re-occuring. Why the undercarriage had droppped or been lowered is not known.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V at RAF Linton-on-Ouse: 1 killed

Date & Time: Dec 23, 1940 at 1930 LT

Type of aircraft:

Landing (descent or approach)

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P5098

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Airport (less than 10 km from airport)

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Yes

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Linton-on-Ouse - Linton-on-Ouse

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1806

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1940

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The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1725LT on an operation to Boulogne, France. One hour into the flight, the crew encountered technical problems with some instruments and decided to return to base. After touchdown, the aircraft went out of control, veered off runway and collided with a parked Westland Lysander. An explosion occurred and both aircraft were destroyed. A crew member was killed while all four others were injured.
Crew (58th Squadron):
F/O Cresswell Montagu Clementi, pilot,
Sgt Walter Thomas W. Large, pilot,
Sgt James Wilfred Henry Brown, observer,
Sgt Herbert Frederick Jennings, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Irwin Geoffrey Johnson, wireless operator and air gunner. †
Source and photo: http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york40/p5098.html

Probable cause:

Instruments failure.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V off Torbay: 5 killed

Date & Time: Dec 23, 1940

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T4159

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