Vancouver – San Diego

On May 26, 1953 at 12:00 AM, Vancouver – San Diego experienced a crash involving Avro 683 Lancaster, operated by Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF, with the event recorded near Iron Mountain Oregon.

The flight was categorized as military and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

10 people were known to be on board, 10 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 10, crew fatalities: 10, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

On a flight from Vancouver to San Diego, the four engine aircraft crashed on the Iron Mountain located in the Syskiyou Mountain Range, southern Oregon. All ten crew members were killed. Crew: F/O Joseph Yvon Aurele Elias Bourgeois, F/O John William Brownie, F/O Robert James Calder, F/O David Fair Lancaster Ellis, F/O Kenneth Edgar Elsden, LAC John Haraldson, F/O Harry Charles Maddick, Cpl Donald Gordon Lancaster Spence, F/O Cyril Jerome Lancaster Williams, LAC William Henry Waldron.

Aircraft reference details include registration KB995.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 45.4190°, -122.6962°.