R5927

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

Safety history

  • February 14, 1942Accident

    The airplane departed RAF Yatesbury on a wireless training operation with a crew of six on board. En route, it collided with the cable of a barrage balloon and crashed at Wiggins Field near Horton. All six crew members were killed. Crew: F/O Albert Horace Sanders, pilot, Cpl Kenneth B. Hordwood, wireless operator, AC2 Kenneth Ivan Oliver, wireless operator, AC2 John Coleman Williams, LAC James Douglas Wood, AC2 Percy Wray, wireless operator. Probable cause (official findings): Collision with th

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