Air Crashes in the Lake District
Just been looking through this old book.
It would appear to have been raining Miles Magisters at RAF Kingstown.
There was an Elementary Flying Training School at Carlisle – the accident statistics are :
Miles Magisters – 75
Tiger Moths – 32
Hurricanes – 103
From a chronological perspective – they seem to have broken all the Magisters in the early years and then had to move on to something else in stock.
The Hurricanes were predominantly mk 1’s from an OTU.
For example On 26th October 1940 – they had 5 Magisters crash in the space of a few minutes as a training formation – due to frost. 3 ground crew killed when a Magister ran through their tent..
taking July 41 as an example:
1st Jul – Magister
1 July – Tiger Moth
4 July – Hurricane
8 July – Magister
17 July – Magister
18 July – Huricane
22 July – Magister
23 July- Hurricane
24 July- Magister
24 July – Hurricane
25 July- Magister x 2
29 July – Hurricane x 2
On the training flights – it sounds more like inexperience ( instructors and pupils) than aircraft?
Also 40 Wellingtons and 29 Hudsons lost – most out of Silloth.
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