Unidentified Halifax "-P" at Wombleton airfield.
On 18th August 1944 this 1666 Heavy Conversion Unit aircraft was being flown on a daytime training flight when, on landing at Wombleton, the brakes failed and it appears to have left the runway. It became bogged down probably somewhere around the middle of the airfield as the Wombleton station record book states that it was then impossible to use the other runways as this aircraft was deemed an obstruction. No night flying took place on this date because of the time it took to remove the aircraft. This incident sounds like it occurred when, on landing, one of the brakes on the main wheels failed causing it to swung off the runway when the wheel when the one good brake slowed the wheel on that side and a inactive brake did not slow it on the other side of the aircraft. If the swung was violent enough then such swungs usually ended up in an undercarriage collapse and this may have happened here although I have yet to locate evidence of this.
During the evening of 27th October 1944 Halifax "ND-P" was slightly damaged at Wombleton. Halifax "-P" on 18th August 1944 and Halifax "ND-P" on 27th October 1944 may well be the same aircraft.
Crew - Names unknown.