Halifax (DG276 ?) at Rufforth airfield.
In the early hours of 29th May 1944 this 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit aircraft was flown on a night circuits and landings exercise using Rufforth airfield. On one attempted landing at 01.38hrs the pilot attempted to make an overshoot as the approach he felt was not correct. Having applied power to the engines the flying speed failed to increase and the aircraft lost what height it had. The aircraft sank towards the ground and a landing had to made, afterwhich it began to swing and the undercarriage eventually collapsed.
The Rufforth station orb gives the date of this incident as being on 26th May 1944 where as the AM Form 1180 gives 29th May 1944.
Pilot - P/O Raymond Edward Charles Hogg RNZAF (NZ.4210085).
I believe that DG276 may have been the aircraft damaged by P/O Hogg on 26th May 1944 because the ORB scribe is unlikely to have recorded the incident in error three days prior to it happening on 29th May 1944 if that was the case. For whatever reason whoever then compiled the AM Form 1180 may then have been confused the record for a second very similar incident involving the same pilot and recorded DG276 against it. I cannot prove this however. If this is true then I cannot yet offer an identity for a definite second incident on 29th May 1944 which is also recorded in the unit record book but purely as "D-Flight / -R" as suffering an undercarriage collapse with the pilot being un-named.