Lindholme - Lindholme

On December 21, 1948 at 05:00 AM, Lindholme - Lindholme experienced a crash involving Avro 683 Lancaster, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Tintwistle Derbyshire.

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

7 people were known to be on board, 7 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 7, crew fatalities: 7, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew had taken off from RAF Lindholme near Doncaster during the night of the 20th December for a Night Familiarization exercise, this was to have been largely local flying. At just after midnight on the 21st the aircraft was heard flying east over Tintwistle in low cloud, followed by the sound of it crashing. The aircraft burst into flames and was more or less gutted by fire. One of the crewmen had survived the crash and was found alive by the first local residents to reach the crash site but he died shortly afterwards. The recorded details of the crash are very brief but they state that the aircraft was meant to remain in the area around Lindholme but had strayed too far towards the west without the pilot becoming aware. He had begun his let down procedure when the aircraft flew into the hill. Crew (230th OCU): F/Sgt Jack Sherwood Thompson, pilot, F/Lt Peter Maurice Maskell, navigator, F/Sgt Robert Smith, signaller, F/Sgt Vincent Graham, flight engineer, Sgt William Allen Love, signaller, F/Lt Thomas Iowerth Johnson, instructor, F/Sgt David William Henry Harris, instructor. Source: http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/peakdistrict/peakdistrictpa411.htm

Aircraft reference details include registration PA411.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 53.4719°, -1.9733°.