Red Deer Cemetery
LAC L. Mann and Leading Aircraftman G.R. Flisher were killed when Oxford - AT464 crashed at a steep angle while engaged in a cross country mutual exercise. The accident occurred 15 minutes after take off. The cause of the accident was obscure.
Mann, Jack (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1944-April-24
Birth Date: 1922-April
Born:
Parents: Son of Charles Richard and Susannah Mann, of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Spouse: husband of Joan Mann, of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAFVR
Unit
36 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Penhold, Alberta, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Service Numbers
1625196
School Daily Diary Entry - 1944-04-24
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.comAccident Card - Airspeed Oxford Mk. I serial:AT464
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1944-April-24. Oxford II s/n AT464.
This accident involved 2 people. Flisher GR, Mann J
This accident had 2 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Gerald Robert Flisher RAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:1606838 Oxford AT464, Leading Aircraftman Jack Mann RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:1625196 Oxford AT464
Unit Desciption
36 SFTS (36 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.
Airspeed Oxford Crash SFTS36
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