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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 ...
[268] [269] [270] The Navy releases photos of the aircraft both under repair and in flight at San Diego on 15 October 1942. [271] 4 June "San Rafael, Calif., June 5, – Fourteen army flyers died in the crash of a heavy bomber near here last night, the army said today. Flames consumed the wreckage when the plane hit a hilltop as the pilot ...
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.
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.
On 13 October KL595 a Consolidated Liberator C.6 of 206 Squadron RAF failed to gain speed on takeoff from Melsbroek, Belgium and sank back into ground, 31 killed. [ 1 ][ 4 ] On 15 October NJ277 a Short Sunderland GR.5 of No. 230 Squadron RAF crashed into a hill in bad visibility near Tuas, Johore, Malaya., 22 killed.
The Short Stirlingwas a British four-engined heavy bomberof the Second World War. It has the distinction of being the first four-engined bomber to be introduced into service with the Royal Air Force(RAF) during the war (the earlier Handley Page V/1500being a WWI design that served during the 1920s). The Stirling was designed during the late ...
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 ...