45 Group RAF Transport Command, Dorval, Quebec. Catalina IB aircraft FP151 was engaged in a ferry flight between Elizabeth City US Coast Guard Station, North Carolina, USA and the water aerodrome at Boucherville, Quebec, Canada when it crashed in poor weather conditions at at sea off Cape Charles, Virginia, USA with the loss of the four crew aboard
Pilot, Quarter Master (Petty Officer) JAK Veiersted (RNAF), American civilian pilot FO Anderson, Newfoundland civilian Radio Officer HT Moores and British civilian Flight Engineer JHK Parker were all missing, presumed killed in this flying accident
The missing have no known graves. Moores and Parker are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial. Anderson is commemorated at a cemetery in New Sweden, Maine, USA. Veiersted is commemorated at a cemetery on Oslo, Norway
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