Aircraft crashed into the sea during rocket firing practice, fifteen miles east of Gibraltar.
Killed: Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph Cotter RCAF R/125780 KIFA Gibraltar Memorial. Flight Sergeant Stanley Maynard Craig RCAF R/125457 KIFA Malta Memorial Panel 11, Column 1. Flight Sergeant Gordon John McFadyean RAF KIFA Malta Memorial Panel 7, Column 2. Flight Sergeant Paul Newns RAF KIFA Malta Memorial Panel 7, Column 2.