WW2 aircraft wreckage on Swirl How - a photo on Flickriver

            RCAF Halifax LL505 came to grief on Great Carrs in the Lake District on 22nd October 1944 whilst on a night navigation exercise from Topcliffe in Yorkshire. Its crew, seven Canadians and one Scot, encountered thick cloud over north-west England. They circled, hoping the cloud would clear but this made them even more lost. The pilot then descended so the navigator could get a visual fix on the ground but by this stage it was flying too low in the heart of the Lakes. In a few seconds the aircraft hit the top of Great Carrs and crashed, killing all on board. The wreckage partly caught fire but was almost intact when found by rescuers. The RAF crash team could not recover it from the site because of its size and location so it was broken into movable pieces and pushed off the side of the mountain into Broad Slack, where much of it remains today. 
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Coniston (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 2001

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