Lancaster Crash Site Visit 15/01/2012 (Tintwistle Knarr)

[jay6600]

RAF avro Lancaster BVII FE (reg:PA411)
Crashed 20-21/December 1948

Flying From And Intended To Return To RAF Lindholme Near Doncaster, South Yorkshire
The Arcraft Was On A Nightime Training Flight,This Was To Have Been Largely Local Flying.
On The 21st The Aircraft Was Reportedly Heard Flying East In The Area Of Tintwhistle In Low Cloud. Lancaster PA411 Circled The Villages Of Tintwistle And Hadfield For Over An Hour,
Dropping Flares, Before Eventually Crashing Into Tintwistle Knarr.The Aircraft Burst Into Flames And Was More Or Less Consumed By Fire.
One Of The Crewmen Had Survived The Inital Crash And Was Found Alive By The First Local Residents Who Reached The Crash Site But Tragically He Died Shortly Afterwards.

Crash Report Considered Loss Of Position/Orientation To Be Contributing Factor.As State That The Aircraft Was Meant To Remain In The Area Around Lindholme
But Had Strayed Too Far Westwards Without The Pilot Becoming Aware. And He Had Begun His Let Down Procedure When The Aircraft Flew Into The Hill.

All Seven Crew Members Who Died Were Australians. RIP

Jack Sherwood Thompson Flight Sergeant Pilot Killed
Peter Maurice Maskell Flight Lieutenant Navigator Killed
Robert Smith Flight Sergeant Signaller Killed
Vincent Graham Flight Sergeant Flight Engineer Killed
William Allen Love Sergeant Signaller Killed
Thomas Iowerth Johnson Flight Lieutenant Instructor Killed
David William Henry Harris Flight Sergeant Instructor Killed
RIP





towards manchester

shiny hydraulic



Prop Mount

Force Cracked

Gears



The Split Pin

Cross

Also Quite Near To This Lancaster Is The Crashsites Of 3 RAF Hurricanes Flying In Formation Crashed In 1945 and Also A USAAF P38 Lightning Also Crashed In 1944 All Crews Perished

Thanks fo looking



info sources
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=69219
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/

[KingElvis]

That's neat mate, sad but a cool site.

Thanks for posting that.

[Nicola]

Indeed very sad....but thankfully not forgotten.

[simonix]

That is so interesting.

[A_Hardy]

Interesting site bud. Nice find.

[ERNIE99_UK]

I always like seeing the crash sites. sombre but very intersting historically.

[mistericeman]

Very nice piccs mate ....visited it myself along with some of the other local ones ...think i put some reports up on here somewhere if you want to have a looks for them .
Good luck finding the 3 hurricanes (if you havn't already ) It took me a good while even with a handheld gps and the 6 figure grids .....theres less than a handful of bits left .