“Grabungen nach alliiertem Bomber
In der Nacht zum 26. November 1943 wurde ein alliierter Bomber über dem Odenwald abgeschossen. Drei der sieben Soldaten wurden damals tot geborgen, vier müssen noch im Wrack liegen. Erst jetzt – 65 Jahre nach Kriegsende – sollen die Angehörigen Gewissheit bekommen. Am Wochenende wurde in Brandau mit dem Ausgraben der Flugzeugreste begonnen. “

Dig for an allied bomber

In the night of 26th November 1943 an allied bomber was shot down over the Odenwald. Three of the seven crew were found dead at the time, but four had to remain in the wreck. Only now – 65 years after the end of the war- are their relatives to have certain knowledge of them. At the weekend the excavatiion of the remains of the aircraft was commenced

10 Sqn was disbanded in 2005

In October 2005, 10 Squadron disbanded at RAF Brize Norton and its aircraft transferred to No 101 Squadron.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history_old/h10.html

24/25.02.44
626 Sqn LancasterI
LL797 UM-B2
RAF Wickenby
Crashed Marsal 18.10

Crew:

FO JP Hutchinson DFC RAAF
Sgt BR Bowditch
Sgt A Hodgson
PO LE GoodkeyRCAF
FO PHW Young
Sgt R Edgeworth
FSgt AF Binder RCAF
FSgt KJ Macey

All were killed. They are buried in the churchyard at Marsal which is near Metz.

Lancaster Target – Jack Currie

From a more modern war, but I guess would come under the “unusual” label:

The USAF deployed F-15C, D and E models to the Persian Gulf in 1991 in support of Operation Desert Storm where they accounted for 36 of the 39 Air Force air-to-air victories……An F-15E achieved an aerial kill of another Iraqi Mi-8 helicopter using a laser-guided bomb during the air war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15_Eagle#Notable_accidents_and_incidents

I don’t know if this will help you, but I was a terribly nervous flyer and that was after many years of lots of flying on business. One day I read in a paper that the likelihood of being involved in an aircraft incident was so vanishingly small it was next to an impossible.

I have taken that on board, and I have convinced myself that it is impossible that I can be involved in a problem. That absolutely sustained me during an uncomfortable approach during a lightning storm!

You may think that is illogical – but is it logical to think you’re going to end up in a flaming pile every time you go to Spain?

Incidentally in many hours of flying the only (very minor) thing I have ever experienced out of the ordinary was a go – around at Chicago when the aircraft in front hadn’t cleared the runway in time.