Squadron: 45 (T) Group (RAF)

Start Date: 1945-07-03

Completion Date: 1945-07-04

Mission: Transport

Operation: unspecified

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Base: Dorval, Quebec

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Crash City: Atlantic Ocean

Crash Specifics: unspecified between Gander Newfoundland and Keflavik, Iceland

Crash Latitude: 0.00000000

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45 Group RAF Transport Command, Dorval, Quebec. Liberator C IX aircraft JT982, operated by a mixed crew of civilian and 231 Squadron aircrew, was scheduled for a flight from Washington DC USA to Northolt, England with stopovers in Dorval, Gander, Keflavik and Prestwick. The aircraft departed RCAF Gander on July 4, 1945 on the leg to Keflavik with a crew of 6 and 9 VIP passengers including several women, when the Liberator ditched in the North Atlantic, believed due to the elevator becoming jammed. An intensive two week air and sea search was carried out, during which a second, RCAF Liberator 595 was lost in the Atlantic, but no trace of the aircraft, crew or passengers of Liberator JT982 were found

Passengers:

Sir Herbert William Malkin GCMG, CB, KC, Legal Adviser to Foreign Office -Age 62

Colonel Denis Cuthbert Capel-Dunn OBE, Ministry of Defense (MI5) - Age 41

Mr Roland Tennyson Peel COBE MC, India Office - Age 52

Miss Mabel Jane Clarkson Scupham, Foreign Office - Aged 40

Miss Joan Margaret Cole-Hamilton MBE, Foreign Office - Age 40

Miss Doreen A Smith, Foreign Office - Aged 20

Miss Agnes Mary Collard, Foreign Office - Age 29

Miss Beryl Hibberd, India Office - Age 23

Miss Phyllis Mabel Spurway, Cabinet Office - Aged 35

Crew:

Captain George Peter Evans (pilot) United States civilian