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The crew was performing a flight from Rearsby to RAF Melbourne, Yorkshire. As the aircraft failed to arrive, SAR operations were conducted on a large area but eventually suspended a week later as no trace of the aircraft nor the five crewmen was found. It is believed the aircraft may have crash into the Humber or maybe into the North Sea after encountering electrical problems, causing the failure of the communication (radio) systems.
Crew:
W/O Reginald Arthur Webb,
W/O Kenneth Crabtree,
F/Lt John Ireland,
F/Lt Leonard Jack Lawrence,
S/L Bernard Frederick Perkins.

Crash of a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina in United Kingdom: 3 killed

Date & Time: May 12, 1944 at 1200 LT

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Consolidated PBY Catalina

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JX273

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Crash of an Airspeed AS.10 Oxford in Shining Tor: 3 killed

Date & Time: Mar 12, 1944

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Airspeed AS.10 Oxford

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LX745

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Training

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Crew was performing a training flight when the aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances in Shining Tor, East Cheshire. All three crew were killed.

Crash of a Supermarine Walrus off United Kingdom

Date & Time: Nov 10, 1938

Type of aircraft:

Supermarine Walrus

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L2256

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Landing (descent or approach)

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Military

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Crashed while landing on sea off the British coast. The crew was performing a training flight and elected to land near 'HMS Sheffield's'. The crew fate is unknown and the float plane capsized.

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The crew forgot to retract the landing gear while trying to land on sea.

Crash of an Avro 504N in North Yorkshire

Date & Time: Feb 23, 1936

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Avro 504

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K1044

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Thornaby - Thornaby

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K1044

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The pilot lost his orientation while cruising in foggy conditions and was unable to locate the Thornaby Airfield. He attempted to make an emergency landing in a bog when the airplane hit the ground and came to rest upside down, somewhere in North Yorkshire (the exact location is unknown). The pilot William Vernon Lewis Spendlove (from the 608th Squadron based at RAF Thornaby) was uninjured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.