Halifax LW347 at Skipton on Swale airfield.
On the evening of 22nd March 1944 this 424 Squadron aircraft was used to fly an operational flight to lay mines and took off from Skipton on Swale airfield at 17.56hrs. The crew released their mines from 15,000 feet at 21.25hrs. On the return to Skipton on Swale airfield the aircraft landed at 23.59hrs but the throttle controls would not go into the fully closed position. Because of this the power to the engines remained too great to be able to slow the aircraft on the runway available. The aircraft drifted off the runway line, overshot and the port undercarriage collapsed when it struck some form of instruction, possibly a mound of earth or a nissen hut. The cause of the fault remained obscure.
Pilot - F/O Douglas Alexander Crosbie RCAF (J/21660).
Navigator - F/Sgt Patrick Murray Moloney RAAF (421364).
Air Bomber - P/O John Evan Tinline RCAF (J/26318).
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Robert Watson Brown RCAF (R/161283).
Flight Engineer - Sgt Charles Alfred Phyall RAFVR (1866204).
Air Gunner - Sgt Lawrence Joseph Henry Boudreau RCAF (R/178922).
Air Gunner - Sgt Zenon Romeo Trudeau RCAF (R/185396).