AX145
We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
Safety history
- January 1, 1943Accident
The crew was performing a night training flight out from RAF Wigtown. While cruising in limited visibility, the twin engine airplane impacted the slope of Mt Skiddaw located 5 km north of Keswick. The wreckage was found on 29 January 1943. All five crew members were killed. Crew (1st AFU): P/O William Basil Cheale Thompson, pilot, P/O William Burt, navigator, Sgt Edwin Omer Knight, navigator, P/O Bruce Oswald Bown, wireless operator and air gunner, Sgt George David Singleton, wireless operator a