Peak District Air Accident Research

Botha Mk.I W5103 of No.7 FPP RAF crashed on Round Hill, Bleaklow 10th December 1941.

The aircraft was lost whilst on a ferry flight from Blackburn's factory at Sherburn-in-Elmet near Leeds to Harwarden near Chester.  The pilot was attempting to fly above the cloud which covered the hills and it is thought he was descending thinking that he had cleared the hills but a head wind may have slowed his progress and therefore meant he was still over the hills as he descended.  The aircraft struck the moorland and the aircraft was destroyed.

A large section of wing and tubular aluminium lie on the summit of Round Hill, seen here in April 2000.

The same section of wing photographed in 2006.

A large section of wing root and spar lies near to the other wreckage, around this is where much of the aircraft was buried following the crash.

A more recent photograph of the section of wing spar and scar where the aircraft crashed.

A view of the same area of the crash site looking east.

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