Shawbury - Shawbury

On June 25, 1946 at 02:15 PM, Shawbury - Shawbury experienced a crash involving Vickers 466 Wellington XIII, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Burnaston AFB Derbyshire.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

6 people were known to be on board, 6 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 2, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The aircraft left RAF Shawbury at 1330LT on a cross country flight. After only 40 minutes in the air the aircraft suffered failure of the starboard engine and was unable to maintain height or airspeed on the port engine alone. The pilot attempted to make a wheels down forced landing in a corn field but had to overshoot, however he did not have sufficient power to recover the airspeed lost in the attempted landing. While attempting to overshoot the aircraft struck a large tree and crashed into the field beyond bursting into flames. The aircraft came to rest in a pit which at the time was surrounded by trees and was destroyed. All six occupants, among them 2 cadets, were killed. Crew (25th FTC): W/O John Harold Brewster-Livett, pilot, F/Lt David Bowie, navigator, F/Lt John Stanley May, bomb aimer, W/O Maurice Madams, wireless operator and air gunner. Passengers: Robert Sydney Wallace, Geoffrey Peter Balty. Source: http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/midlands/midlandsnc661.htm

Aircraft reference details include registration NC661.