Liverpool-John Lennon (ex Speke)

On approach to Belfast-City Airport, the pilot encountered heavy rain falls and the horizontal visibility was reduced to 180 meters. Apparently to maintain a visual contact with the ground, he reduced his altitude when the aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in a wooded area located in Craigavad Cultra, some 10 km northeast of the airport. The aircraft was destroyed and all six occupants were killed, among them the pilot, captain E. Tyrer.

On landing, the single engine aircraft went out of control, veered off runway and collided with a USAF parked P-47. Both aircraft were destroyed in the collision and all eight occupants on board the Norseman were injured. At the time of the accident, there was a cross wind up to 7 knots.

The pilot departed Liverpool-Speke Airport on a flight to RAF Lyneham. En route, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances near RAF White Waltham. The pilot, sole on board, was killed.
Crew:
F/O Robert Serge Loewenstein, pilot.

The bomber crashed for unknown reasons upon landing at Liverpool-Speke Airport. All three crew members were rescued, among them one was injured.
Crew:
Sgt Caddies,
P/O Cohen,
Sgt Coiles.

The twin engine aircraft named 'Alcaeus' crashed in unknown circumstances shortly after takeoff from Hanworth. Occupant's fate unknown.

The American crew departed Liverpool-Speke on a local test flight. En route, the wings and the tail detached. The airplane entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in a field, bursting into flames. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Frank Anderline, pilot,
Fred Taylor, flight mechanic,
John Hagadorn, engine inspector.

The aircraft was engaged in an anti-aircraft exercise with the Territorial Army over the area of Liverpool. When the mission was over, the crew was returning to his base. While approaching Liverpool-Speke Airport at night, the twin engine aircraft was too low and collided with a tall tree, nosed down and crashed. A passenger was killed while all four other occupants were injured.

The airplane departed RAF West Freugh at 1710LT for Marham via Ayr, Blackpool, Ternhill and Cheltenham. While flying 12 km northeast of Liverpool at an altitude of 4,000 feet, the left engine failed. The captain decided to divert to RAF Sealand on one engine but the aircraft was losing altitude. Due to severe vibrations, he ordered his crew to abandon the aircraft. He continued the flight alone but was unable to reach RAF Sealand. He eventually made an emergency landing in a field near Halewood, some 5 km northeast of Speke, Liverpool. While the aircraft was damaged beyond repair, the captain and all four other crew members survived.

En route from Newcastle to Liverpool, the pilot was facing clouds and initiated a sharp turn when he lost control of the airplane which suffered a structural failure, entered a dive and crashed in a field. All three occupants were killed.

The twin engine aircraft was used to prove a safe air route from Glasgow-Renfrew to Liverpool-Speke under the sponsorship (and ownership) of the Daily Express in an unofficial response to a report by the Maybury Air Committee into the opening up of routes linking various British cities. The aircraft left Glasgow-Renfrew Airport and headed south to Liverpool but nothing further was heard and when it failed to arrive at its destination, a SAR operation was started. A local resident found the debris on a hill two days later, near the Clatteringshaws Reservoir, some 16 miles southwest of Newton Stewart. All four occupants were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.
Crew:
Leslie T. Jackson, pilot,
Archibald Francis Phillpot, radio operator.
Passengers:
Harold J. Pemberton, journalist for the Daily Express,
Reginald Charles Wesley, photographer for the Daily Express.