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29: 377: 305:. The pilot Captain Landon Tanner and co-pilot Captain Harry Stroud were flying by instruments as the area was covered in low cloud. Based on the flight time, the crew believed it had passed the hills and began to descend. At about 11:00 the aircraft hit the ground at 610m above sea level, 300m north east of the summit of Higher Shelf Stones and it was engulfed in flames. All 11 crew and 2 military passengers perished in the crash. When the aircraft failed to arrive at the Burtonwood airbase, the nearby 323: 242: 313:
rescue team headed to Bleaklow and located the crash site at about 16:30, by which time the light was fading. The debris of the aircraft was scattered with only the tail section intact. The recovery of the occupants took place the following morning and their bodies were taken to Burtonwood. The
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and struck the hillside after dark. The crew had become disorientated without a qualified navigator on board, because the crew should only have been carrying out circuits around the airfield but had decided to fly cross-country.
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aircraft was carrying the $ 7,400 wages for the Burtonwood airbase. The money survived the fire and was recovered at the crash site by the American Military Police.
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The aircraft crashed onto the moor while flying at night in low cloud and wintry weather. Two of seven planes from the Operational Training Unit at
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Boeing 'RB-29A 44-61999 was part of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division in the
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engines, wing sections, fuselage sections, undercarriage and gun turrets. One of the gun turrets is on display at the air museum in
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at the summit of Higher Shelf Stones. It is about a 2-mile (3.2 km) walk to the crash site from the lay-by at the summit of
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was called to search for the missing aircraft. Already on a training exercise upon the Kinder Scout moors, the
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teams issued warnings that inexperienced hikers should exercise caution before attempting a winter visit.
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were lost during a Bullseye exercise (simulated night bombing). Wellington R1538 also crashed, near
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on 3 November 1948. The aircraft was on a routine daytime flight with two other aircraft, leaving
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in the Peak District in 1948. It was modified as a reconnaissance aircraft, rather than a bomber.
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The area around the crash site is challenging to navigate. The most obvious route is from the
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The aircraft crashed at Higher Shelf Stones on the Bleaklow moorland plateau near
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Crashed at cruising speed in low cloud over the Pennines while returning to
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The aircraft crashed on Shelf Moor in low cloud on a transport flight from
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Several other military aircraft have crashed on the Bleaklow moors.
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after it was flown in July 1946 by the 509th Composite Group during
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Accidents and incidents involving United States Air Force aircraft
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In 1988, a memorial was erected at the site by servicemen from
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The aircraft crashed onto the moor during a flight from
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The aircraft was destroyed on impact while flying from
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at about 10:15 and heading to the US Air Force base at
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Much of the wreckage is still exposed, including the
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Franssen (passenger) 352:Sergeant Donald R. Abrogast (camera crew) 343:Sergeant Gene A. Gartner (radio operator) 226:that crashed near Higher Shelf Stones on 1660:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1948 751:Pilot John Rossman Tinklepaugh (Killed) 643:Flight Engineer Kenneth McIvor (Killed) 380:The centre of the crash site on Bleaklow 375: 358:Private William M. Burrows (camera crew) 346:Sergeant David D. Moore (radar operator) 340:Sergeant Charles R. Wilbanks (navigator) 321: 240: 705:Passenger Grover R. Alexander (Killed) 652:Air Gunner Clarence Halvorson (Killed) 641:Pilot Anthony Arthur Clifford (Killed) 473:Passenger Jack Elliott Thomas (Killed) 420:COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom 1647: 1003:Collier, Ron; Wilkinson, Roni (1995). 951: 355:Sergeant Robert I. 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Index

Blealow Bomber
Glossop
53°27′02″N 1°51′54″W / 53.4505°N 1.8651°W / 53.4505; -1.8651
United States Air Force
Registration
Scampton
Lincoln
Burtonwood
Warrington
US Air Force
Boeing RB-29A Superfortress
Bleaklow

Strategic Air Command
Operation Crossroads
nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll
Berlin airlift
Glossop
Derbyshire
RAF Scampton
Lincoln
Burtonwood
Warrington
RAF Mountain Rescue Service
RAF Harpur Hill


RAF Finningley
Duplex-Cyclone
Newark-on-Trent

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