Ligurian Sea

The aircraft left Algiers Airport at 1103LT bound for Florence, Italy. Weather conditions along the route were poor with low visibility, cloud at 2,000 - 3,000 feet and snow falls. At 1506LT, the crew received the permission to descend from 12,000 to 6,000 feet towards Florence. As the aircraft failed to arrive, SAR operations were conducted but eventually suspended few days later as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. It is believed the aircraft may have crash into the Ligurian Sea or on a mountain located somewhere in Corsica.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 1807LT on November 7 on an operation to Genoa. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Ligurian Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew.
P/O David Graham Chell, pilot,
Sgt George Alfred Carter,
Sgt William Robert Downing,
Sgt Arthur Ernest Roberts,
Sgt James Timothy Sullivan.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton at 2205LT on November 6 on an operation to Genoa. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Ligurian Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
W/O Vaughan Ross Long, pilot,
Sgt William Geoffrey Chapman,
Sgt Peter Hayward,
Sgt Ernest MacKay,
F/Sgt Lindsey Herbert Morton,
W/O Maurice Luther Roberts,
Sgt John Leslie Gordon Waite.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton at 2210LT on November 6 on an operation to Genoa. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Ligurian Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Thomas Gerald Hackney, pilot,
F/Sgt Aubrey Wilson Coley,
Sgt James Cope,
Sgt Leonard Edwards,
F/Sgt Claude Allan Foster,
Sgt Selwyn Charles Orme, wireless operator,
F/Sgt John Henry Pellowe.