Silloth AFB

The crew was involved in a combined training exercise with another RAF Lockheed L-414 Hudson registered T9273 and carrying four crew members as well. In flight, both twin engine aircraft collided and crashed into the Solway Firth, off RAF Silloth. All eight crew members on both aircraft were killed.
Crew (1st OTU):
Sgt K. J. Chandler,
Sgt L. Hargrave,
Sgt J. Brown,
Sgt Morse.

The crew was involved in a combined training exercise with another RAF Lockheed L-414 Hudson registered AE646 and carrying four crew members as well. In flight, both twin engine aircraft collided and crashed into the Solway Firth, off RAF Silloth. All eight crew members on both aircraft were killed.
Crew (1st OTU):
P/O I. G. T. Roberts,
P/O F. Ratcliffe,
Sgt S. M. Wilson,
Sgt R. M. Jack.

Shortly after take off from RAF Silloth, while in initial climb, the aircraft stalled and crashed in a huge explosion. Both crewmen were killed.
Crew (1st OTU):
Donald William Shirley,
Ernest Alfred Jefferson.

The crew was performing a local training exercise at RAF Silloth. While cruising at night in the vicinity of the airbase, the twin engine airplane collided with a second RAF Lockheed L-414 Hudson registered N7392 and also carrying a crew of four. Following the mid-air collision, both airplanes crashed in the Solway Firth, some 3 miles southwest of Silloth Airfield. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew (1st OTU):
Sgt Thomas Essam,
Sgt Peter Field,
Sgt Mervyn Charles Taylor,
Sgt Jack Oldknow.

The crew was performing a local training exercise at RAF Silloth. While cruising at night in the vicinity of the airbase, the twin engine airplane collided with a second RAF Lockheed L-414 Hudson registered AM699 and also carrying a crew of four. Following the mid-air collision, both airplanes crashed in the Solway Firth, some 3 miles southwest of Silloth Airfield. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew (1st OTU):
Sgt Ronald Henry Bester,
Sgt Stanley Charles George Blowes,
Sgt William James Thomas Bogg,
Sgt George William Searle.

The airplane departed RAF Silloth on a night training exercise. En route, one of the engine caught fire. The airplane lost height and eventually impacted the slope of Mt Dent Fell located northeast of Egremont, Cumbria. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Stuart Daniel John Dalgleish, pilot,
Sgt Earle Douglas Parrish, observer,
Sgt Charles Harry Page, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt John William Leadill, wireless operator and air gunner.

The twin engine airplane was engaged in a local training exercise at RAF Silloth. On final approach, it went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed few hundred metres short of runway, bursting into flames. A crew was killed and a second was injured.
Crew (1st OTU):
Sgt Alan James Birchwood, pilot, †
Sgt J. F. Griffiths.

The twin engine airplane departed RAF Silloth on a local training exercise. While flying at night, it suffered an engine failure, entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed into the Solway Firth off the airbase. All four crew members were killed.
Crew (1st OTU):
Sgt John Alexander Stark, pilot,
Sgt George Richard Stookes,
Sgt John Wycliffe Watson, wireless operator,
Sgt Frank Prime.

The airplane departed RAF Silloth on a navigation training exercise. Prior to the mission, the crew was instructed to remain in areas free of fog and low cloud, however the aircraft ended up in low cloud. People living in the villages to the east of North Barrule heard the aircraft fly over head and then the sound of the aircraft crashing. The airplane crashed in a prairie and was destroyed by a post crash fire. All five crew members were killed.
Crew (1st OTU):
Sgt John Bruton Healey, pilot,
Sgt Joseph Anthony Moore, pilot,
Sgt Reginald Joseph Clarke, observer,
Sgt John Ker Noble Kerbey, wireless operator,
Sgt Norman Eric Eggleton, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Silloth on a night training exercise. In unknown circumstances, it crashed in a cliff in Grune Point near Skinburness. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Charles Thomas Dacombe, instructor,
Sgt Louis Brian Eugene Larsen, pilot,
Sgt Brynmor Jones, wireless operator.