Wellington T2622 at Snaith airfield.
At 12.00hrs on 22nd August 1941 this 150 Squadron aircraft was coming in to land at Snaith with a faulty undercarriage, the pilot had used an emergency system to lower the undercarriage but this then rendered the flaps unusable. The aircraft landed too fast and it over-ran the runway, it ploughed through
boundary hedge was sustained serious damage deemed enough to write it off.
Wellington T2622 was built to contract B.38600/39 by Vickers Armstrong's Ltd. at Weybridge and was awaiting collection in July 1940. It was allotted to 46 MU on 14th July 1940 and was then received by them on 21st July 1940. After a period of MU storage it was taken on charge by 150 Squadron on 5th October 1940 at Newton and during their conversion from Fairey Battles to Wellington MkIc's. On 15th January 1941 the aircraft was returning from an operational flight when the port engine cut out, a forced landing was made in a field three miles west of Cranwell. Cat.B damage resulted. It may have been repaired on site as on 7th March 1941 it was returned to 150 Squadron after repair. On 10th July 1941 150 Squadron moved to Snaith. As a result of the crash at Snaith on 22th August 1941 Cat.E/FA was recorded and the aircraft was written off.
Pilot - S/Ldr Alexander Black Olney RAF (37116).
Crew - Names unknown.
Alexander Olney was born in the Fylde district of Lancashire in 1914. He was granted a short service commission as Acting P/O on 15th March 1935
and posted to 57 Squadron at Upper Heyford in January 1936. He was then posted to 39 Squadron based at Risalpur, India in October 1936. He was made
F/O on 15th October 1937, then to F/Lt on 4th October 1939 and then to temporary S/Ldr in October 1940. Following this incident above he was posted
to 142 Squadron on 23rd September 1941. On 1st March 1942 he was made temporary W/Co and was Mentioned in Despatches on 1st January 1945. He remained
in the RAF in the Post-War period but had transferred to the Reserve of Officers on an unknown date. In May 1959, as W/Co, he relinquished his commission
but retained the rank of G/Cpt. He died in the Salisbury area of Wiltshire in 1978.