Wittering AFB

The aircraft was completing a flight from RAF Wittering to Tromsø, carrying a Harrier load. After touchdown on a runway covered with slush, the airplane deviated to the left. The Aircraft Captain, without saying 'he had control' feathered the two starboard engines. The co-pilot, believing he was still in control, applied right rudder and brakes. Instead of a gentle correction to the centreline, the aircraft swung hard right and left the runway. As it crossed over the 'monnie' drain the cockpit area of the fuselage broke off by the crew door, coming to rest at an angle to the main fuselage, the tail also broke off. At this stage the crew 'legged it' through the flight deck windows leaving everything still switched on and live! The passenger had trapped his hand on the 'towel rail' when it folded under the impact, the navigator gave him a 'whack' which loosened his hand but broke his fingers.On hitting the ground outside the aircraft, the ALM had a heart attack (non-fatal). The main fuselage was covered in dirt which had entered through the break and if the ALM and pax had been sitting there they would have been killed. The Load remained 'nailed to the floor' and not one bottle was broken!
Crew:
F/Lt Charles Collier,
F/O Brian Clucas,
F/S Taff Thomas,
F/S Tony ‘Chomper’ Lamb,
Sgt Ivan Gervais,
Sgt Merv Corke,
Cpl Keith Simmonds,
Cpl Tom Blues,
SAC Bob Ford,
SAC Bob Thacker,
SAC Keri Eynon,
SAC Fred Kitts.
Source: http://ukmamsoba.org/obb022318_light.html

The airplane departed RAF Woolfox Lodge at 1930LT on March 13 on an operation to Cologne. Following an uneventful mission and while returning to base, an engine failed. The crew decided to abandon the aircraft and bailed out. Out of control, the bomber dove into the ground and crashed in a field located two miles south of RAF Wittering. The airplane was destroyed while all seven crew members were uninjured.
Crew (61st Squadron):
P/O John Ralph Hubbard, pilot,
Sgt P. C. V. Joslin,
P/O Robert Heggie, observer,
F/Sgt John George Clelland, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Albert Wallace Baker, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt T. C. Stanley,
Sgt P. Jones.

The crew departed RAF Wittering on a local training exercise. En route, the airplane entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in Market Deeping, about 13 km northeast of the airbase. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt James Leslie Sudders, pilot,
Sgt William Arthur Fradley, observer,
Sgt Eric Welch, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Swinderby at 2035LT on September 2 on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following morning, it crash landed near RAF Wittering. Two crew members were injured.
Crew:
Sgt N. G. Glenn,
Sgt W. Dalgleish,
Sgt D. H. Mudd,
Sgt Tullin.

The pilot departed RAF Wittering on a local solo training exercise. While circling in the vicinity of the airbase, he lost control of the airplane that crashed in an open field and was destroyed. The pilot Sgt Horace Francis Henry Gigney was killed.

En route from RAF Wittering to Digby, the crew encountered marginal weather conditions with limited visibility due to low patches of fog. Flying too low, the airplane collided with trees and crashed near RAF Cottesmore. Both crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Thomas Fairgrieve Dorward, pilot,
F/O John Austin Strong, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Wittering in the evening of December 7 to proceed with a check of the blackout over Peterborough. During the patrol, weather conditions deteriorated and the crew encountered storm. The pilot apparently lost control of the airplane that dove into the ground and crashed in a field located in Elton, southwest of Peterborough. Two crew members were killed and a third was injured.
Crew:
F/Lt John McCulloch Middlemore Hughes, pilot, †
Sgt F Blenkharn, observer,
Sgt Jack Richard Friend, wireless operator and air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell in the evening of November 29 on an operation to Le Havre. While returning to base the following night, it ran out of fuel and was abandoned by the crew who bailed out. The aircraft dove into the ground and crashed near RAF Wittering. All four crew members were uninjured.
Crew:
F/O Page,
Sgt Brain,
Sgt Fraser,
Sgt D. Laing.

Crashed onto a dispersal pan at RAF Wittering while completing a local training flight. The crew was uninjured.
Crew:
P/O P. F. Miles +2.

The airplane was shot down by the pilot of a He.111. The pilot was killed and two other occupants bailed out and survived.
Crew:
Sgt Alan Croxton Close, pilot, †
LAC John Henry Angus, observer,
LAC Laurence Robert Karasek, wireless operator and air gunner.