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 civilian 2nd Capt. J. W. Ross copilot USA civ. Cyril Paul Joseph Meagher radio op., Canadian - Ottawa Memorial Flying Officer Roy Holden Marshall Patterson navigator, R.C.A.F. J/39901 - Ottawa Memorial G. B. Swaney FEng. civ, British US 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.