Jura

While descending to Basel Airport in marginal weather conditions at an altitude of 2,000 feet, the crew informed ATC about navigation problems and requested the permission to climb to 3,500 feet over the Homburg beacon. Due to traffic, the crew was cleared to climb to 2,500 feet only when few dozen seconds later, the aircraft disappeared from radar screens. SAR operations were quickly conducted but the wreckage was found three days later, on April 20, by a farmer in an open field located in Corban, some 25 km south of Basel Airport. The aircraft was totally destroyed upon impact and both crew members were killed.

The twin engine airplane was completing a liaison flight when it crashed in unknown circumstances in hilly terrain in Les Rindins, near Delémont. All four crew members were killed, among them Célerier Valmy.

While flying over the Jura Mountain Range at a too low altitude, the three engine aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in flames in a wooded area called La Joux. The radio navigator Henri Glaise was slightly injured, the mechanic Leroy was seriously injured and the pilot Alain Bamayeux was killed.

Enroute to Geneva and while flying over the Jura, the crew encountered thick fog and lost his orientation. The captain decided to attempt an emergency landing in a field located in Lons-le-Saunier. On landing, the aircraft skidded for several yards and eventually hit a tree that penetrated the cockpit and seriously injured the captain. All other occupants were transferred to Geneva by bus and the aircraft was written off.

While overflying the Jura, the pilot encountered technical problems, maybe carburetor icing. He decided to reduce his altitude in an attempt to make an emergency landing when the aircraft went out of control and crashed in a huger explosion in a wooded area. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew (Groupe de Bombardement 2/63 Sénégal):
Cdt Fernand Condette,
Lt Jean Ducourneau,
Sgt Aimé Escriva,
Sgt Robert Radano,
S/Lt Jacques Margain,
Adj Marceau Audibert,
Sgt/C Édouard Barberet.

While flying over Jura, the twin engine aircraft was shot down by Flak and crashed in a field located in Bourbon, southeast of Lons-le-Saunier. All four crew members were killed.

The aircraft left RAF East Kirkby (Lincolnshire) in the early evening with a crew of 7 on a bombing mission to Stuttgart. The aircraft successively flew over Normandy, Vosges and Belfort when the crew lost his orientation by night and in poor weather conditions. Instead of flying bound to the east for Stuttgart, the pilot continued to the south bound for Switzerland. When it arrived at the border between France and Germany, the bomber was attacked by the pilot of a German fighter Messerschmitt Me.110G. The aircraft caught fire but the crew was able to continue for few minutes before the aircraft went out of control and crashed in a prairie located in Le Chaumont, southeast of Saignelégier, Jura, Switzerland. Six crew were killed while the seventh occupant was later rescued. He was able to bail out with his parachute when the aircraft was at a height of some 1,000 meters.
Crew (57th Squadron):
Sam Atcheson, pilot,
Anthony McCall, navigator,
Sergeant Jack Greenhalgh, armourer
Sergeant Brian Thomas, engineer,
Sergeant Frank Weaver, radio,
Sergeant James Naylor,
Sergeant Kenneth Reece, gunner, the only survivor.
Source: www.retrotrame.ch

The pilot Martin Seidler, sole on board, was completing a local flight in Porrentruy when he lost control of the airplane that crashed in a field. The pilot escaped uninjured and the aircraft was destroyed.