Netheravon AFB

The accident occurred whilst the aircraft was taking off on a parachute dropping flight with the pilot and eight parachutists on board. Shortly after takeoff, at a height of about 50 feet above ground level, the pilot detected a loss of power from the port engine. He then selected the flaps up, but whilst he was about to commence the shut down and propeller feathering drills for the port engine, the starboard engine also appeared to lose power. In the subsequent attempt to land the aircraft straight ahead, the pilot was unable to reduce a high sink rate and a heavy landing resulted. The aircraft sustained severe damage that was beyond economic repair, but there were no injuries to those on board.

The crew was engaged in a local training sortie, towing a glider. Just after liftoff, while in initial climb, the throttles slipped back for undetermined reason. The aircraft stalled, crashed on the runway and came to rest. While both pilots were unhurt, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The crew was completing a local training sortie at RAF Netheravon when the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances near the airbase. The pilot was killed and the observer was seriously injured. He died the next day from injuries sustained.
Crew:
F/O Ronald Frank Thain, pilot,
Sgt Cyril Walter Henry Rawlings, observer.

The airplane departed RAF Netheravon at 2123LT to attack an electric station in Distré. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed one km south of the village. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O David Herbert Upsher, pilot,
F/O Malcolm Cedric Hayes, pilot,
F/Sgt Keith Reynold Marshall, wireless operator,
Sgt Walter Mather, navigator,
S/L Campbell Crichton-Miller, meteorologist and weather officer,
F/Lt Michael Edward Jackson Croker, air gunner,
F/Sgt Thomas William Holland, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Netheravon at 1858LT to drop leaflets over Châteauroux. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt William Ronald Erasmus, pilot,
Sgt Sidney Albert George Wraight, observer,
Sgt Jack Heaton Beebe, radio operator,
F/Sgt Edward Froggatt, air gunner.

The crew departed RAF Netheravon to drop leaflets over Roubaix. It is believed that the airplane crashed near Abbeville. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Clifford Wood, pilot,
Sgt Cecil Graham George Hobson, flight engineer,
F/O D'arcy Clive Melville Ducker, radio operator,
F/O William Archibald Hinselwood, observer,
F/Sgt Douglas Lambert Grant, air gunner.

While taking off from RAF Neterhavon, the airplane's wing dropped at low altitude. The airplane sank back onto the runway, veered off runway and came to rest, damaged beyond repair. All three occupants escaped unhurt.

The single engine airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from RAF Netheravon. The pilot, sole on board, escaped uninured. The exact date of the mishap remains unknown, somewhere in November 1941.

The twin engine airplane departed RAF Netheravon on a training mission. En route, it went out of control and crashed in unknown circumstances in Cleeve, Somerset. All three crew members were seriously injured. The pilot died from his injuries at 2030LT that same evening and another crew died the next day.
Crew:
Sgt J. MacLaughlin, pilot, †
AC1 George Henry Butler, †
AC1 R. P. A. Dougan,
AC1 J. Dormon.

The pilot, sole on board, departed RAF Netheravon for a local training mission. En route, he lost control of the airplane that crashed in Upper Studley, southwest of Trowbridge. The pilot P/O Reginald Montague Swaine was killed.