Lancaster KB847 at Croft airfield.
On 14th November 1944 this 431 Squadron aircraft was flown on a circuits and landings training flight around Croft airfield. On one of the landings at 16.44hrs the brakes failed to slow the aircraft and it overshot, crashing into a nissen hut. The aircraft was only slightly damaged. The nissen hut had already been knocked down once in an an aeroplane crash and rebuilt in the same area. It was deemed to now be in the way so was rebuilt elsewhere.
Pilot - F/O Roy Harrison RCAF (J/16686).
Four un-named crew.