ML823

On September 6, 1944 at 12:00 PM, ML823 experienced a crash involving Short S.25 Sunderland, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Bloody Foreland Ulster.

The flight was categorized as survey / patrol / reconnaissance and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

10 people were known to be on board, 9 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 90.0%.

Crew on board: 10, crew fatalities: 9, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew was involved in a maritime patrol flight when an engine failed en route. The seaplane crashed into the sea off Bloody Foreland, Donegal County. Nine crew members were killed and one crewman survived. Crew (423rd Squadron): F/O Frederick William Greenwood, pilot, † F/Sgt Laurence Patrick Quinn, † F/O Edwin Earl McCann, † F/Lt George Francis Cornwell, navigator, † F/O Herbert Stanley Seibold, † F/O Kenneth Mons Liddle, † W/O Joseph Alphonse Raymond Dore, † Sgt Nigel McColl Anderson, † Sgt John Edwin Caton, † W/O R. H. VOYCE.

Aircraft reference details include registration ML823.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 55.1374°, -8.2616°.