Took off from Torbay on a ferry trip to Dartmouth NS
On lift off one or both engine sputtered then the engines surge and the Hudson rises to 100 feet whereupon a left bank, develops and deepens, the plane sinks, drags the port wing tip, and cartwheels into a fiercely burning inverted pile of wreckage.
Crew Killed: F/Lt Joseph Hyacinthe Ulysses LeBlanc RCAF C907 KIFA Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville RCAF R/78383 KIFA Sergeant Harold Fulford Taylor RCAF R/71922 KIFA
Passengers Killed: F/Lt Rudolf Irwin Ehrlichman RCAF C/2637 KIFA Sergeant Montezuma Hold Brothers RCAF R/51548 KIFA Cpl. Charles Frederick Else RCAF 18103A KIFA LAC Norman Clifford Fleischman RCAF R/84289 KIFA LAC Smith Edward Crymes RCAF R/70569 KIFA.