Date & Time:
Jan 8, 1943 at 1225 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 417 Wellington III
Operator:
Registration:
BJ604
Flight Phase:
Landing (descent or approach)
Flight Type:
Military
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Middleton Saint George - Middleton Saint George
Country:
United Kingdom
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
0
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
1
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
Overshot while landing at RAF Middleton Saint George and came to rest on a railway line. All six crew members escaped uninjured but a train struck the plane and as a result one civilian, railwayman A. Glover was killed and another, fireman G. F. Barber, was injured.
Crew:
Sgt W. E. Harwood, pilot +5.
Crew:
Sgt W. E. Harwood, pilot +5.
