Crash of an Airspeed AS.10 Oxford II at RAF Kingston Bagpuize: 2 killed

Date & Time: Jun 3, 1943 at 1005 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
X6871
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Kingston Bagpuize - Kingston Bagpuize
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
Two Airspeed AS.10 Oxford II registered V3821 and X6871 were engaged in a local training flight at RAF Kingston Bagpuize. In unknown circumstances, they collided in midair and crashed. All five crew members in both airplanes were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Jack Brooke, instructor pilot,
F/Sgt Leo Albert Boire, student pilot.

Crash of an Airspeed AS.10 Oxford II at RAF Kingston Bagpuize: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jun 3, 1943 at 1005 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
V3821
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Kingston Bagpuize - Kingston Bagpuize
MSN:
3283
YOM:
1941
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
Two Airspeed AS.10 Oxford II registered V3821 and X6871 were engaged in a local training flight at RAF Kingston Bagpuize. In unknown circumstances, they collided in midair and crashed. All five crew members in both airplanes were killed.
Crew:
F/O Ronald Charles Wood, instructor pilot,
W/O Donald James Innes-Smith, student pilot,
F/O Jack Standish Banks.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley II in Kingston Bagpuize: 3 killed

Date & Time: Dec 18, 1939 at 1100 LT
Operator:
Registration:
K7260
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Abingdon - Abingdon
MSN:
1248
YOM:
1938
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The crew was performing a local training exercise out from RAF Abingdon. While cruising at low altitude, the aircraft impacted a tree and crashed in a field located near Kingston Bagpuize, some 7 km west of RAF Abingdon, coming to rest upside and bursting into flames. All three crew members were killed.
Crew (97th Squadron):
F/O John Gaskell Howard,
P/O Clair Neil Robinson,
Sgt Albert Coe.