ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 175494
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| Date: | Friday 13 July 1945 |
| Time: | 15:10 |
| Type: |  Consolidated Liberator GR Mk VIII |
| Owner/operator: | 11 (BR) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | 11121 |
| MSN: | 3986 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Hit mountain 7 mi (12 km) ESE of Bamfield B.C. -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RCAF Tofino, BC (YAZ) |
| RCAF Patrica Bay, BC (YYJ) |
On Friday, 13 July 1945, RCAF Liberator GR.VIII, 11121 X of 11 (BR) Squadron, with a seven man crew took off from RCAF Station Patricia Bay on a training flight encompassing Vancouver Island. Stops were made at RCAF Stations Comox, Port Hardy and Tofino. Along the way, three airwomen and one airman were picked up at Comox and three airmen at Tofino.
The aircraft departed Tofino under partly cloudy skies. It is thought that the aircraft entered a cloud bank and crashed into a 2800 ft (853 meter) mountain in the Somerset Range. All fourteen crew and passengers were killed in the crash.
The wreckage was located four days later on 17 July, 1945, approximately seven miles east-southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia. The ground searchers took four days to reach the isolated crash site, and confirmed that no one survived the crash.
The crew and passengers were buried at the crash site in two common graves; one for the women, and one for the men. Each was marked with a wooden cross bearing their names. In the fall of 1982, airmen from Canadian Forces Base Comox erected a more permanent cairn and bronze plaque. The cairn was dedicated in an official ceremony in 1983.
Sources:
Canada’s Wings 2, The Liberator and Fortress; Carl Vincent: Page 86
Joe Baugher: USAAF B-24L-1-FO, 44-49131; RAF KL519; RCAF 11121
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=RCAF%2011121
https://www.bcam.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Crosson-VG5872.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Apr-2015 17:37 | Yukonjack | Added |
| 20-Apr-2015 06:34 | AlLah | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 29-May-2016 05:35 | yukonjack | Updated [Operator] |
| 27-Apr-2022 06:26 | Cosmo | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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