Langford Lodge AFB | Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives

While circling in the vicinity of RAF Langford Lodge, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the Lough Neagh, south of the airbase. A crew was killed.
Crew:
F/O Frederic Hugh Warburton +3.

Crash of an Airspeed AS.10 Oxford II on Mt Fron Hen

Date & Time: Dec 3, 1942 at 1345 LT

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Airspeed AS.10 Oxford

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R6179

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Liverpool - Langford Lodge

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The crew departed Liverpool-Speke Airport on a flight to RAF Langford Lodge after radio equipment have been delivered in Liverpool. After takeoff, the pilot followed the River Mersey to avoid the Liverpool defenses and was cruising at an altitude of 800 feet due to low clouds. Shortly later, to clear barrage balloon, he climbed and entered clouds when the airplane impacted the slope of Mt Fron Hen located in the Clwydian Mountain Range.
Crew:
2nd Lt Joseph E. Lowe, pilot.
Passenger:
1st Lt John L. Pearce.

Probable cause:

Controlled flight into terrain.