Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster III in Hawnby Hill: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 30, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
ED481
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The crew left RAF Waddington on a bombing mission to Hamburg. Following an uneventful mission, the crew was returning to his base when his was instructed by ground to divert to RAF Leeming. Later, the aircraft run out of fuel and crashed at Hawnby Hill, near Northallerton. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/O Frank Goheen Nelson, pilot,
Sgt Allan McKeen, flight engineer,
Sgt George Francis Done, navigator,
Sgt Alan Arthur Frederick Williams, navigator,
Sgt Henry Summers Jones, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Arthur William Butcher, air gunner,
Sgt Walter George Murton, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Fuel exhaustion.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II in Northallerton: 6 killed

Date & Time: Jan 15, 1942 at 2230 LT
Operator:
Registration:
L9622
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Leeming - Leeming
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 1812LT on an operation to Hamburg. While returning to base in the late evening, it crashed in unknown circumstances in Northallerton. Six crew members were killed and a seventh was seriously injured.
Crew:
Sgt M. S. Schneider, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Cowan, pilot, †
Sgt Herbert Kenneth Taylor, flight engineer, †
P/O Michael Von Dadelszen, observer, †
Sgt James Calvert Bradley, wireless operator, †
P/O Vincent Leslie Brice, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Donald Savage, air gunner. †