Aircraft accidents in Yorkshire.

Hudson AM601 at Thornaby airfield.

On the 7th of September 1941 this aircraft took off from Thornaby at 19.30hrs for a Blocking Patrol to cover Convoy EC70. On the crews return the aircraft overshot its landing at Thornaby and at 22.45hrs it crashed into Stainsby Beck valley beyond the East-West runway. All four airmen were injured, one so serious that he died during the night. The aircraft suffered cat E2/FA damage.

Hudson AM601 was built by Lockheed-Vega at Lockheed at Burbank, California and purchased without contract by the British Purchasing Commission. It was shipped to UK and after acceptance at MU was issued to 608 Squadron in May 1941.

Pilot - Sgt B C Harrington RNZAF, seriously injured and remained in hospital until mid-January 1942.

Pilot - Sgt Foster RAF, injured.

WOp/AG - Sgt Bennett RAF, injured.

WOp/AG - Sgt Thomas R B Corrie RAFVR (1254015), aged 26, of ? Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

The grave of Sgt Corrie.

If he is the same man then a F/O Barclay C Harrington RNZAF (401270) was killed on 6th of January 1945, he was 29 years old and is commemerated on the Bourail Memorial, New Zealand.

There was also a Sgt Douglas L Bennett RAF (650477), of Tottenham, Middlesex who was killed flying with the same 608 Squadron on 6th February 1942. He was 20 years old and is buried in Trondheim Cemetery, Norway. I would suggest the two are one and the same man.