Belfast – Liverpool

On September 28, 1948 at 09:59 AM, Belfast – Liverpool experienced a crash involving Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax VIII, operated by World Air Freight, with the event recorded near Port Erin Isle of Man.

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

4 people were known to be on board, 4 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: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. 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

Aircraft reference details include registration G-AJNZ, MSN 1385, year of manufacture 1947.