Scone AFB

The crew was completing a training sortie from RAF Scone. En route, he encountered poor weather conditions and the pilot-in-command decided to reduce his altitude in an attempt to establish a visual contact with the ground. The airplane hit the ground with its left wing then a tree with its right wing, rotated and crashed in a field. All five crew members were injured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The pilot was performing a local training flight with a second RAF Avro Anson registered VV299. While cruising beneath the second Anson, the pilot made a wrong maneuver, letting his aircraft climbing and hitting the left wing of the second Anson with his tail. He lost control of his airplane that dove into the ground and crashed in a field located in Scone, northeast of Perth. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was killed. The pilot of the second aircraft was able to land safely.