EG269
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Safety history
- May 17, 1943Accident
The crew was performing a training sortie out from RAF Jurby, Isle of Man. While flying at low height, the twin engine airplane collided with telegraph wires and crashed two km north of Tadcaster. All five crewmen were killed. Crew (5th AOS): P/O Harry Rhodes, pilot, Sgt George Ervin Bleier, observer and navigator, Lac Peter Geoffrey Wilson, observer and navigator, Sgt Percy Annetts, wireless operator and air gunner, Sgt Gerald Henry Charles Watkins, wireless operator and air gunner.