Squadron: 1 (OT) SFTS (RCAF)

Start Date: 1940-12-13

Completion Date: 1940-12-13

Mission: Search

Operation: unspecified

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Base: Camp Borden, Ontario, Canada

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Crash City: Canada

Crash Specifics: Lake Muskoka, Ontario

Crash Latitude: 0.00000000

Crash Longitude: 0.00000000

Crash Reason: midair

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1 Service Flying training School (SFTS) Camp Borden, Ontario. Nomad aircraft 3512 was flying in formation with Nomad aircraft 3521 while searching for Nomad aircraft 3502 which had become lost on a training flight and believed to have crashed the previous day. The two aircraft were involved in a mid-air collision and both crashed into Lake Muskoka, Ontario with the loss of all four aircrew aboard

Leading Aircraftman Phillip William James Gosling (RCAF) and Sergeant Lionel Francis (RAF) in 3512, Leading Aircraftman Theodore Scribner Bates (RCAF) and Flight Lieutenant Peter Campbell (RAF) in 3521, were all killed in this flying accident

Camp Borden Birthplace of the RCAF by 16 Wing, Borden, Ontario, page 116

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - 1940-12-13

Unvetted Source Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

General RAF Commands

Nomad (Northrop) 3512 - Search - 1940-12-13 to 1940-12-13