Liberator C IX, JT-982 was scheduled for a Washington, Dorval, Gander, Keflavik, Prestwick, Northolt flight itinerary.
En-route to Keflavik, the Liberator ditched in the North Atlantic due a jammed elevator.
Killed - Crew:Capt. G. P. Evans pilot USA civilian2nd Capt. J. W. Ross copilot USA civ.Cyril Paul Joseph Meagher radio op., Canadian - Ottawa MemorialFlying Officer Roy Holden Marshall Patterson navigator, R.C.A.F. J/39901 - Ottawa MemorialG. B. Swaney FEng. civ, BritishUS Sgt. William Thomas Keates, flight clerk - Runnymede Memorial.
Killed - passengers:Sir Herbert William Malkin G.C.M.G., C.B., K.C., born 1883, Legal Adviser to Foreign Office. Colonel Denis Cuthbert Capel-Dunn, OBE Ministry of Defense (MI5).Mr. Roland Tennyson Peel India Office.Aged 52 Miss Mabel Jane Clarkson Scupham, Foreign Office.Aged 40 Miss Joan Margaret Cole-Hamilton, M.B.E.Foreign Office Miss Doreen A. Smith, Aged 20.Miss Beryl Hibberd. India Office. - Aged approx. 23.Miss Phyllis Mabel Spurway, Cabinet Office, aged 36.