Upwood AFB

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Z5950

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The pilot was engaged in a local solo training flight at RAF Upwood. Just after takeoff, the airplane suffered an engine failure and crashed near the bomb dump. The pilot was uninjured while the airplane was damaged beyond repair.
Crew:
Sgt P. Stocks, pilot.

Probable cause:

Engine failure upon takeoff.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV near Dalton-in-Furness: 3 killed

Date & Time: May 21, 1941 at 1630 LT

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L9388

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Mountains

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The airplane departed RAF Upwood on a cross-country exercise. While flying at high speed, it impacted the slope of a hill located near Dalton-in-Furness. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Leslie Walter Robertson, pilot,
P/O George Victor Wilson, observer,
Sgt Jeffrey Frederick Harrison, wireless operator.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV off Morecambe: 3 killed

Date & Time: May 17, 1941

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V5565

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Lake, Sea, Ocean, River

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The airplane departed RAF Upwood on a cross-country exercise. After crossing the coast of Lancashire, the left engine failed while the airplane was completing a left turn. It went out of control and crashed into the sea some five miles southwest of Morecambe. Two crew members were killed and a third was injured.
Crew:
S/L W. R. Selkirk,
AC2 Ronald Dawson, †
P/O Thomas Riley Hodgson, †
Sgt Philip Savage. †

Probable cause:

Engine failure in flight.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: May 12, 1941

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V5391

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Lake, Sea, Ocean, River

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The airplane departed RAF Upwood on a training exercise. It was lost without trace, probably after it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Kenyon Charles Belton,
Sgt William Hunter,
Sgt Norman Robertson MacMillan.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV near RAF Polebrook

Date & Time: Apr 15, 1941 at 0930 LT

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L4892

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8907

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1939

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The crew departed RAF Upwood on a low-level bombing exercise. After takeoff, the airplane suffered a loss of engine power and crashed two miles east of RAF Polebrook. Both crew members were injured.
Crew:
P/O A. J. Taylor,
P/O T. E. Wootton.

Probable cause:

Loss of engine power.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV near RAF Bourn: 1 killed

Date & Time: Apr 10, 1941 at 2359 LT

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V5732

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The crew departed RAF Upwood on a night training exercise. The pilot got lost and as the airplane ran out of fuel, he attempted an emergency landing when it crash landed in a field located near RAF Bourn. All three crew members were injured. The pilot died from injuries sustained.
Crew:
Sgt J. R. Perkins, †
Sgt A. J. Reid,
Sgt J. Gibbons.

Probable cause:

Fuel exhaustion.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV at RAF Upwood: 5 killed

Date & Time: Apr 10, 1941 at 2120 LT

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Landing (descent or approach)

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V5519

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The crew was performing a local night training exercise at RAF Upwood. While completing a turn at low height, the airplane collided with a light pole and crashed onto the flare path. Both crew members were injured while seven airmen on the flare path were critically injured. Five of them died from injuries sustained.
Crew:
Sgt D. G. Knight, pilot,
Sgt Owen, observer.
Those killed on ground were:
Sgt Sidney Mcleod Wells, observer,
LAC Donald George Francks,
AC1 Laurence Frederick Roy Trickett,
AC1 George Allan Firth,
AC2 John Broen Tait.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV near RAF Warboys: 2 killed

Date & Time: Apr 10, 1941 at 2110 LT

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N3591

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The crew departed RAF Upwood on a night training exercise. En route, control was lost and the airplane crashed near RAF Warboys. Both crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Bertram Charles Rowland, pilot,
Sgt Joseph Douglas Graham, wireless operator.

Probable cause:

It is believed that the accident was the consequence of an engine failure in flight.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim I at RAF Upwood

Date & Time: Dec 23, 1940 at 1130 LT

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Landing (descent or approach)

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L8683

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