Halifax LW639 at Holme on Spalding Moor airfield.
During the evening of 4th March 1944 this 76 Squadron aircraft was flown on a training flight that appears to have been the pilot's first solo flight in a Halifax MkIII. While flying at 2,400ft the crew released that the pitch on the starboard outer propeller could not be altered which then probably saw the crew shut down the engine although it would not then have been able to be feathered. A problem also appears to have effected the hydraulics that controlled the undercarriage but the crew managed to hand pump it down. Returning to Holme on Spalding Moor airfield at 21.35hrs the pilot's first landing in a MkIII was heavy, the aircraft bounced and after which the pilot braked hard, the aircraft then swung off the runway and the port undercarriage collapsed. The unit orb does not mention the incident but does record that light snow fell during the evening.
Pilot - F/Sgt William Edgar Louis Palmer RAFVR (1321994).