Squadron: 6 (OT) BGS (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-02-24
Completion Date: 1944-02-24
Mission: Operational
Operation: unspecified
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Base: Mountain View, Ontario, Canada
Take Off Time: 13:35:00
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Crash City: CanadaMelville, Ontario
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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6 Bombing and Gunnery School, Mountain View, Ontario. Bolingbroke IVT aircraft 10241 was returning from a gunnery exercise when it entered an out of control spin, crashed and burned at Melville, Ontario with the loss of the entire crew. The accident investigation could not determine the cause of the crash
Sergeant Donald William Sangster (RCAF), Sergeant Hubert Huson Wright (RCAF), Flying Officer William Elmer Kennedy (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman Richard Howard Watt (RAFVR) and Leading Aircraftman Norman Alistair Tulloch Wright (RAFVR) were all killed in this training flying accident
Quietus Last Flight, Accident Proneness in WWII, Wartime Aviation Stories on the Canadian Home Front by Anne Grafiuk
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