N5050

We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.

Safety history

  • January 19, 1940Accident

    The crew departed RAF Hooton Park at 0800LT on a convoy mission. About an hour into the flight, weather conditions worsened with heavy snow falls. The airplane crashed on the foreshore some 6 km east of Rhyl. A crew member was seriously injured while three others were killed. Crew: F/O John Randall Garrett, pilot, Sgt Harold Christopher Moorby, observer, † LAC Thomas Christopher McClure, air gunner, † AC1 Robert Beattie, wireless operator. †

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