Thessalon, OntarioTook off from Patricia Bay on a cross country training flight landing at RCAF Comox then on to RCAF Tofino where seven passengers including three women from the RCAF Women's Division (RCAF-WD) boarded to fly back to Patricia Bay.
Due to bad weather, the aircraft crashed into the forest covered side of a mountain seven miles east-south-east of Bamfield, near the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. Everyone aboard was killed on impact.
Killed: Flying Officer William Edward Davies, RCAF Flying Officer Robert Joseph Martello RCAF J/26660 KIFA Flying Officer Nicholas Maxwell Popovich RCAF J/47933 KIFA Flight Sergeant Donald William Hope, RCAF R/59081 KIFA Flying Officer Harry Alexander Lowe RCAF J/47850 KIFA Warrant Officer 1 Victor Gilbert Crosson ECAF R/151140 KIFA Warrant Officer 2 Joseph Bertrand Raymond Presse RCAF R/90751 KIFA Passenger Corp. William Hrysko, RCAF R/106466 KIFA Passenger Corp. Norman Marshall Johnson RCAF R/130808 KIFA Passenger Leading Aircraftman Raymond Valentine Kiteley, RCAF R/255935 KIFA Passenger Leading Aircraftman Lloyd Henry Tull RCAF R/261754 KIFA Passenger Sergeant Pamela Gladys Bennett RCAF-WD W/316180 KIFA Passenger Corp. Nora Marshall Johnson, RCAF-WD W/307410 KIFA Passenger LAW Margaret Mann RCAF-WD W/302037 KIFA
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