Halifax VI RG499 at Snaith airfield.
On 19th May 1945 this 77 Squadron had been collected from Full Sutton to be disposed of but where to is not known. After a short fifteen minute flight a landing was made at Snaith airfield at 09.22hrs. As the pilot reduced power to the engines on landing a fire in the port outer engine broke out. The fire was extinguished using the built in Graviner extinguisher system but the aircraft had been slightly damaged. It was discovered that a fractured flexible hose has resulted in a fuel leak that had caught fire.
Pilot - F/Lt Stanley Thomas Holliman RAFVR (116539).
Four others - Names unknown.
The AM Form 78 for Halifax RG499 gives no clues as to where this aircraft was heading, it arrived at 77 Squadron on 25th February 1945 and on paper remained with them until 31st July 1945 when it passed to 29 MU. There is no mention of it ever sustaining any damage in it's history before being sold for scrap in December 1949.