No problem – you’ll see I’ve added a further bit of info to my first response which actually identifies a specific unit for you. I also amended the spelling to Barrackpore. 🙂

I see that this actual aircraft later went to Ejercito del Aire as T.4-13 which I assume is of special interest to you!

Tim

Thank you very much, Tim.
I see 1304th AAFBU 😉

It really is very interesting for me.

Yes, this C-54 was later T.4-13 in the Ejército del Aire, and you are right, I´m working in a book about our C-54s 😉

Cheers

Thank you, again, Michel for taking the trouble to post copies of the reports.

Assuming that the moderators don’t raise objection – on the ground that it is advertising – you may wish to post a hyperlink to the website (assuming that there is one) on which your book can be purchased by those who do not live in Spain.

Upss. I didn´t know that it isn´t allowed to attach reports´copies. Sorry. Next time I know it and I´ll send by personal message this items

Respect the book there are some bookstores in which its possible to order it, there isn´t a specific website. I think it´s better don´t post just one.

Regards

Thank you, Michel, for posting so much interesting information as well as the images. If you are able to scan and post the accident report I, for one, will be interested to read it.

You are wellcome. I will scan the report this weekend. At the moment I can post the little spanish report I requested to CIAIAC

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In flight from Málaga to Carmolí (Murcia aerodrome), following the coast line, the airplane turned away the route surely with the intentión to reach Granada, due to the topographic track of the terrain where it crashed is similar and it has a pararel direction to Lanjarón Valley, over which the airplane would had have to flight for to go to Granada, crashing into the Sierra de Aral, next to Cañar, and burning immediately. There wasn´t visibility due the fog in the crash area. Crew was killed. Airplane destroyed
Regards
Michel

Did you obtain copies of the British and/or Spanish accident reports? If so, what do they say as to the cause of the crash – or do we have to read your book to learn this?

Yes, thanks, I obtained the british report by the National Archives (that its the translated spanish report) and other little spanish report. Any of them mention the cause, although it seems that the pitot wasn´t cautious and followed the fligh route more dangerous, flying over the mountains in bad weather instead to follow the coast route, as they were advised by the air traffic controlled of Málaga airport. They was flying between Málaga and Murcia, both cities are placed in the south Spain coast. Other supposition says that the crew elected to fly to Granada, to the north, during the flight, and for that the aircraft crashed into de south face of Sierra Nevada; I don´t think in this last supposition. The report also mention that it seems the aircraft hadn´t engine failure before the crash cause local eyewitnes heard the engine noise (the weather was foggy) running good.

You can see the crashsite (red arrow) in this pic. Little village in the right is Cañar

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I can scan the british report if you are interested in.

The pilot and passenger were american students in Oxford University and maybe they were on holidays because they were in Morocco before Spain flying in the same aircraft.

These are the all info that I was able to find about the accident, and the info published in the local newspapers about it.

Thank you very much for your help
Regards
Michel

If you have not already seen the crash report, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=572072&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5 might be useful to you, Michel. It would be interesting to know what a British registered Magister was doing, so far from home, when it crashed in, presumably, the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Thank you very much. Yes, I have contacted with them for to order the accident report and prices. I think that I read that them have the spanish report, so I´m going to check it in the Spanish AF Archive

And yes, the Miles crashed in Sierra Nevada mountains, near a small village, Cañar, placed in the Alpujarras, south face of S. Nevada. Her was in flight between Málaga and Murcia, it is all I know about the accident.

Michel

British Military serial was P6410…………..

Planemike

Thank you very much¡¡¡¡ 😉