Grand'Mere, Quebec
Cessna Crane aircraft 7944 was engaged in dual instruction on instruments and flew through thunderclouds at an unknown height. Without warning the aircraft descended through the overcast inverted and shedding parts. Pieces of the aircraft continued to fall off for over two miles before the Crane crashed seven miles north-west of Wakaw, Saskatchewan, the horizontal stabilizers and left wing tip breaking away first, Cpl J.A.A. Langevin and Pilot Officer W.R.C. McDonald were killed.
Langevin, Joseph Arsene Adelard (Corporal)
Killed in Flying Accident 1942-July-15
Birth Date: 1913
Born:
Parents: Son of Arsene and Bernadette Langevin, of Grand'Mere.
Spouse:
Home: Grand'Mere, Quebec
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
4 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rank
Corporal
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/62772
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Crane 7944
Accident Card - Cessna Crane Mk. I serial:7944
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-July-15. Cessna Crane I s/n 7944.
This accident involved 2 people. Langevin JAA, Mcdonald WRC
This accident had 2 fatalities. Pilot Officer William Russell Campbell McDonald RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/7689 Crane 7944, Corporal Joseph Arsene Adelard Langevin RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/62772 Crane 7944
Unit Desciption
4 SFTS (4 Service Flying Training School)
Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.
There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.
Cessna Crane
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4 SFTS Saskatoon History
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