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#10 Squadron RAF (Rem Acu Tangere) RAF Leeming. Halifax aircraft L 9614 and Halifax V 9981collided in the course of taking off from the aerodrome at Leeming, Yorkshire for a training flight
FS WW Tripp (RCAF) was killed in this flying accident
Crew casualties: Flight Engineer - Sergeant Thomas Frederick Mooney (RAF) and Second Pilot - Squadron Leader (then F/O) John Henry Nassau Molesworth DFC (RAFVR) survived injured in the collision. Third Pilot - Sergeant Philip Gordon Bell (RAFVR), Wireless Operator/Air Gunner - Sergeant Victor Charles Howick RAFVR
Ground Crew passenger casualties: AC1 L Geldard (RAFVR) (F/M-Airframe), AC2 Harry Spencer (RAFVR) (F/M-Engine) and AC2 Edward Rowland Bedford (RAFVR) (Instrument Repairer) all survived, uninjured
Sergeant WC Green (RAFVR) was killed on Halifax V 9981 and seven other aircrew survived
Both Halifax aircraft were written off as unrepairable
FS Tripp was BROTHER of brother Flying Officer Charles Leroy Tripp, a serving officer in the RCAF in Canada and was sadly killed on 23rd March 1943 when in RCAF #113 Squadron Hudson III aircraft #BW 620 crashed just after take-off
Aircraft accidents in Yorkshire