Date & Time:
Dec 9, 1942 at 1000 LT
Type of aircraft:
Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke
Operator:
Registration:
9924
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Training
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Dafoe - Dafoe
Country:
Canada
Region:
North America
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
3
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The crew departed RCAF Station Dafoe on a scheduled gunnery exercise. For unknown reasons, the airplane dove into the ground at high speed, exploded on impact and disintegrated. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Jack William Phillips, pilot,
Lac Reginald Ivor Morgan, pilot,
Lac Frederick Walter Selfe, pilot.
Crew:
F/Sgt Jack William Phillips, pilot,
Lac Reginald Ivor Morgan, pilot,
Lac Frederick Walter Selfe, pilot.
Probable cause:
The cause of the loss of control could not be determined.
Final Report:
9924.pdf141.15 KB
