Vickers Wellington Mk.IC DV718 of No.11 OTU, crashed on Riggs Moor, Blake Hill near Kettlewell on the 2nd / 3rd September 1942
George Francis Ridgway | Sergeant | Pilot | Killed |
Donald Harrison Lyne | Pilot Officer | Navigator | Injured |
Willie Allinson | Sergeant | Bomb Aimer | Killed |
Howard William Spencer | Sergeant | Wireless Operator | Killed |
Paul McLarnon | Sergeant | Air gunner | Killed |
The crew of DV718 were similarly tasked to the crew of Z8808, but had taken off from RAF Bassingbourne to complete a night cross country navigation flight. During the flight the crew of DV718 became disorientated in low cloud and crashed on the summit of Blake Hill, an outlier of Great Whernside in the Yorkshire Dales, where the aircraft was destroyed by fire.