| Date: | Saturday 13 November 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated 32-2 Liberator II |
| Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-AHYC |
| MSN: | 5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Prestwick-Heathfield Airport (PIK) -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Prestwick-Heathfield Airport (PIK/EGPK) |
The undercarriage sustained damage on takeoff. Upon landing at Heathfields, one gear leg partially retracted. The Liberator was damaged beyond repair.
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| 29 April 1944 | 41-28413 | United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) | 10 | Merna, Nebraska, 15 mi SW |  |
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| 24 September 1944 | 44-39203 | United States Army Air Force - USAAF | 4 | near Dafflaghur Tea Estate |  |
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