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Safety history
March 21, 1941Accident
The crew was engaged in a night training exercise from RAF Cranage. While flying at low height, the aircraft his tree tops and crashed in a wooded area located in Hawkeswood Farm, near Rednal. All five crew members were killed. Crew (2nd SAN): F/O Eric Walwyn Padfield, pilot, Sgt Frederic Ralph Percival Burgess, pilot, Sgt W. Hewish, Sgt James Frederick Minnet, pilot, Sgt Peter Rowland Hill, radio operator.
Probable cause (official findings): The pilot failed to see and/or negotiate a large oak
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