Driffield AFB

The crew departed RAF Upper Heyford on a bombing exercice over Carlisle. After a fuel stop at RAF Driffield, the crew continued to Kingstown. While cruising over the Pennines, the crew encountered poor weather conditions. The airplane descended too low until it impacted the slope of Mt Mickle Fell located 14 km west of Middleton-in-Teesdale. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O John Owen Sowerbutts, pilot,
AC1 William Ashbridge, air gunner,
AC2 Horace Redfern, wireless operator and air gunner.

The crew was performing a night training flight on behalf of the 75th Squadron. The aircraft departed RAF Driffield in the evening and completed several circuits around the airbase. While returning to the airfield in poor weather conditions, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in a field located in Tibthorpe. All five occupants were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Edward James Merchant,
Sgt Ronald George Cowley Marshall,
Cpl Walter Greaves,
AC1 Ronald Herbert Fish,
AC1 George Jeffrey Humphries.

The crew was performing a night training flight from RAF Driffield. On approach to RAF Greenham Common, the twin engine aircraft descended through the last cloud layer when it impacted tree tops and crashed in a wooded area located in Kingsclere, northwest of Basingstoke, Hampshire. A pilot was killed while three other occupants were injured.
Crew from 51st Squadron:
P/O David Lorraine Lloyd Morris, †
Sgt Donald William Mansbridge,
P/O Cecil Wardman Poulter,
AC2 Ronald Harry Price.

The crew was performing a local training flight at RAF Driffield. On final approach, the pilot failed to realize his altitude was too low when the aircraft hit tree tops, overturned and crashed upside down in an open field located short of runway. Both crew members were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.