Peak District Crash Site Locations

This is still the only site with GPS verified, precise and accurate grid references for all of the peak district crash sites where any wreckage remains. We also have many in Wales, Yorkshire, and Bowland.

We are still active, and are in the process of updating the site, which has been rather inactive for a few years due to work commitments.

Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-100322

 

A day out in Bowland with IanDB in low cloud yesterday yielded this Burn Fell B-24 site I've missed in the past.

Location:  SD 67123 53127

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Bristol Blenheim Mk.V BA246

An outing with Mick and Moustache Steve to Bleasdale Fell in the Forest of Bowland Sunday before last yielded a couple of pools of wreckage from a fatal night training accident in 1944. This collection including undercarriage components is slightly lower than the main wreckage.

Lockheed P38-G Lightnings 42-12905 and 42-12928

A boggy day out last Sunday in Bowland with Pat and Mick - we found the crash sites of both of the Lightnings which collided in mid-air on a ferry flight and crashed on and near Dunsop Fell.

Lockheed P38-G Lightning 42-12905
Location:SD 67407 54246
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Lockheed P38-G Lightning 42-12928
Location:SD 66797 56393
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Photos c/o Pat Cunningham. We are back at work now, so no more outings for a while...

Douglas Skymaster C-54G-5-DO 45-543

A day out in the Trough of Bowland with some Flickr buddies as well as Hal and Steve located this undercarriage leg from a cargo 'plane whose instruments were supposedly seduced when returning from the Berlin airlift by the call of a commercial radio station to fly into Stake House Fell.

Were there any commercial radio stations in 1949? Wotherspoon's suggestion of a BBC station seems more likely.

Location:SD 55650 49425
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