Crash of an Avro 652 Anson I on Mt Scafell Pike: 5 killed
Date & Time:
Aug 9, 1943
Operator:
Registration:
DJ275
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Brampton – Douglas
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The crew was engaged in a night training flight and left the RAF Brampton in the early evening on a combined exercise with three other similar aircraft. En route, the crew encountered low visibility, marginal weather conditions and strong winds, which caused the aircraft to drift off the intended course when it struck the summit of Mt Scafell Pike. The wreckage was found two days later and all five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Stanislaw Kowalczyk, pilot,
Sgt John Taylor Chadwick, navigator,
Sgt Thomas William Pickering, bomb aimer,
Sgt Robert Stanley Deason, navigator,
Sgt Thomas Scorer Wheatley Lawson, wireless operator and air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Stanislaw Kowalczyk, pilot,
Sgt John Taylor Chadwick, navigator,
Sgt Thomas William Pickering, bomb aimer,
Sgt Robert Stanley Deason, navigator,
Sgt Thomas Scorer Wheatley Lawson, wireless operator and air gunner.
