Peak District Air Accident Research

Vickers Wellington Mk.IC T2715 of 25 OTU, crashed on Dufton Fell near Appleby in Westmoreland on the 20th August 1942 while on a night cross country exercise from Finningley.

From all of the available records only the pilot's name has ever been found. Sgt Crew was latter commissioned and became a Squadron Leader before being killed on the 5th January 1945 while flying Halifax Mk.III NR257 (ZL-Y) of 427 Sqn RCAF. 

The sister ship to this aircraft, T2714, crashed in the Lake District in February 1942.

A general view of part of the crash site. Not much of the aircraft remains, it is mostly small fragments, although some larger parts do remain.

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