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45 Group RAF Transport Command, Dorval Quebec. Canadian-built Mosquito aircraft KB 536 took off from RCAF Station Summerside, PEI for a ferry flight to the UK under conditions of low visibility. The aircraft was heard from shortly after take off and then no further contact before it crashed into Bedeque Bay, PEI. Subsequent searches located wreckage of the aircraft in shallow water about 12 miles south of Summerside, and a quarter of a mile off shore from Sea Cow Head
Pilot Sub/Lt S Breck (RNAF) and Wireless Operator/Navigator FE Sorensen (RAAF) were missing, presumed killed in this flying accident
The missing have no known grave and both are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial
Oil cooler problems on Canadian-built Mosquitos being flown in colder weather resulting in several crashes of these aircraft while being ferried. This became a serious issue for 45 Group, such that after the loss of KB 536, Mosquitos were ferried via the Southern Route, across the Atlantic from Nata, Brazil to Dakar, Senegal and then North to Britain until it was determined how to deal with cold weather operations
Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie pages 226, 325
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