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1666 Heavy Conversion Unit, RAF Wombleton. Lancaster I aircraft ME-750 QY-T was engaged in a daylight navigation training exercise when it came spinning out of the clouds, on fire. The aircraft crashed one mile west of South Cerney, Gloucestershire, England with no survivors. Icing conditions were suspected as a cause of the crash but oddly, all four engines had feathered propellers which baffled the accident investigators
Flying Officer Herbert George Christie DFC & Bar (RCAF), Sergeant Alvin Walter Heard (RCAF), Flying Officer William Henry Matheson (RCAF), Flying Officer Kenneth Mark Pridham (RCAF), Flight Leutenant Arnold Joseph Snetsinger (RCAF), Flying Officer Earl Douglas Tait (RCAF) and Sergeant Donald Gordon MacKenzie (RAFVR) were all killed in this training flying accident
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