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Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax VIII

Crash landed for unknown reason. All six crew members were uninjured.

Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax VIII

While approaching Berlin on a cargo flight from Hamburg, taking part to the Berlin Airlift, the four engine aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances in Nauen, about 26 km northwest of Tegel Airport. All four crew members were killed. Crew: Cpt William Richard Donald Lewis, pilot, Edward Ernest Caroll, navigator, John Anderson, flight engineer, Kenneth George Wood, radio operator.

Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax VIII

Crashed on takeoff at Berlin-Gatow, while on a cargo flight to Blackpool, taking part to the Berlin Airlift. The accident occurred in unknown circumstances and while the aircraft christened 'North Wind' was damaged beyond repair, all five crew members were injured.

Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax VIII

The aircraft was flying the last of six round trips from Speke, Liverpool, to Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland, it was scheduled to make during the 27th/28th September. The aircraft had been carrying nearly 1150 gallons of milk on each flight from Northern Ireland back to Liverpool to help make up a shortage being experienced at the time in some areas of the UK. The aircraft left Nutts Corner at 09:30 and had been in contact with Nutts Corner by radio until passing into the Northern Flight Information Region where contact was made with the Northern area controller. This was followed by further contact at 09:59 which ended abruptly mid-sentence with "I am over or abeam I O", both the northern area controller, Ronaldsway and Speke attempted to contact the aircraft with no response. A search for the aircraft was begun immediately and at about 12:30 the commandant of Ronaldway airport located the wreckage of the aircraft. It had struck the very summit of Cronk ny Arrey Laa slid off the summit and landed about 200 yards down hill on the eastern side of the hill where the aircraft broke up killing the crew. Crew: John Frederick George Savage, pilot, Richard Lansdowne Miller, navigator, Oswald Harold Guppy Hiscock, radio operator, Albert Harry Noon, flight engineer. Source: http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/isleofman/iomg-ajnz.htm