Fairey Battle Mk.I K7589 of No.226 Sqn, RAF, crashed on Pumlumon Cwmbiga on the 6th October 1938
Alistair Lilburn MacEwan | Pilot Officer | Pilot | Killed |
Frank James | Corporal | ? | Killed |
Kenneth Adrian Clark | Aircraftman 1st Class | Wireless Operator | Killed |
The crew were on a cross country flight from Harwell to Bardsey Island and back when they entered poor weather over mid-Wales. To the west of Llanidloes P/O MacEwan lost control of the aircraft and it entered a dive which it had not been recovered from when it struck the eastern side of Pumlunom Cwmbiga, an outlier of Plynlimon, killing the three crew.