Halifax BB271 at Carnaby airfield.
At around 11.40hrs on 4th June 1944 this 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit aircraft took off from Lindholme airfield to undertake a training flight and what was probably a cross country training exercise. The flight appears to have gone without incident until the crew found themselves in the landing circuit of Lindholme with a undercarriage leg that would not lower. Having done all they could in the skies around Lindholme the crew received the order to fly to the emergency landing airfield at Carnaby where they made a belly landing 18.45hrs. A component within the undercarriage's hydraulic system had suffered a loss of fluid causing the ram to fail.
Pilot - F/Sgt F E Elliot RCAF (R/138998).