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The Dunbeath air crash was the crash of a Short S.25 Sunderland Mk. III in the Scottish Highlands, on a headland known as Eagle's Rock (Scottish Gaelic: Creag na h-Iolaire) near Dunbeath, Caithness, on 25 August 1942. [1][2] The crash killed 14 of 15 passengers and crew, including Prince George, Duke of Kent, who was on duty as an Air Commodore ...
The Short S.25 Sunderlandis a British flying boatpatrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothersfor the Royal Air Force(RAF). The aircraft took its service name from the town (latterly, city) and port of Sunderlandin North East England. Developed in parallel with the civilian S.23 Empireflying boat, the flagship of Imperial Airways ...
The Air Ministry Crash Card records that the fighter flew into high ground in a squall, the weather deteriorated and the aircraft dived out of low cloud into a snow squall and failed to pull out of the dive. The pilot was interred at St Margaret's Church Cemetery, Castletown, Sunderland. [210] 25 February
10 August. "Pearl Harbor, Aug. 10, (AP) – A Navybomber crashed in the Pearl Harbor Navy yardduring maneuvers today, killing three of its crew and injuring 17 persons, among them four civilian employes." [110]The aircraft struck a loaded bus and eight civilians died, in addition to the three plane crew.
Ground injuries. 24. On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
Nachtjagdgeschwader 3, was the last Axis aircraft to crash on British soil during World War II. Confused by auto headlights, the fighter hit a tree while attacking the airfield at RAF Elvington and crashed at Sutton upon Derwent, Yorkshire; all four crew members were killed. Two other Ju 88s crashed in separate incidents at 1:37 and 1:45 am.
A Short Sunderland MR5 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, displayed at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland. Developed as a long range maritime reconnaissance flying boat, the Short Sunderland was widely used during the Second World War. New Zealand purchased four Sunderlands in early 1944 for use as transport aircraft but did ...
During Operation Bolero, the ferrying of combat aircraft from the U.S. to England by air, a flight of two B-17E-BO Flying Fortresses, 41-9101, c/n 2573, "Big Stoop", and 41-9105, c/n 2577, "Do-Do", of the 97th Bomb Group and six P-38F Lightnings of the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, on the 845-mile (1,360 km) leg between Bluie West 8 ...