Halifax DK129 damaged in the air, landed at Topcliffe airfield.
On 26th August 1943 this 1659 Heavy Conversion Unit aircraft struck high tension wires soon after taking off from Topcliffe airfield. The pilot was able to remain in control and landed safely at Topcliffe at 22.40hrs soon after with damage to the fuselage, bomb doors, wing leading edge, the starboard main plane and the port inner propeller. The air speed indicator wasn't working, probably due to the pitot tube being damaged or broken off.
Pilot - Sgt Robert Moscrop Buck RAFVR (1378810).
Robert Buck was posted to 428 Squadron on 28th August 1943. He died on 27th November 1943 when his Halifax JN966 collided with a 103 Squadron Lancaster ED417 just north of Middleton St.George airfield killing all but one of the fourteen men involved. He is buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery. His wife lived at Brompton on Swale, Yorkshire.