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736 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy Air Station Inskip (formerly HMS Nightjar). On the evening of 16 January 1945, Lieutenant Bernard John Kennedy (RCNVR) boarded a Grumman TBM-1C Avenger torpedo bomber JZ 390 at HMS Nightjar near Lancashire, along with his Navigator Midshipman Gordon Fell (RNVR) and Wireless Operator Leading Airman Phillip Mallorie (RN), for an ill-fated night navigational training flight. On that Friday evening, Kennedy and his flight crew charted a course between Preston and Blackpool. While flying south along the English west coast, the airplane evidently strayed inland and tragically flew into the rock face at Wastwater Screes, in the mountainous Great Gully region in Cumberland County. All three airman onboard were killed instantly. Lieutenant Kennedy was 23 years old.
Canada's Naval Aviators by John MacFarlane and Robbie Hughes, page 92
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Lieutenant Bernard John Kennedy O-38300 OTD - 16 January 1945 - Hamilton Naval Association Grumman Avenger JZ390 - aircrashsites.co.uk Avenger Mk II JZ390 Great Gully Wastwater - Peak District Air Acciden...