![]() Losing power with only one working engine meant that the aircraft was unable to keep up with the squadron and was alone in the darkness. The Pilot, Flying Officer Ernest Scotland, reported a fault with an over-heating engine which he subsequently shut down. 571 Squadron of Bomber Command on a bombing raid target in Hamburg. This 1941, the ‘all-wood’ aircraft was taking part in a Fast Night-Striking Force of No. The aircraft was returning from a successful sortie to RAF Oakington (Cambridgeshire). _ De Havilland DH98 MOSQUITOĭATE: 22nd October 1944: Impact Site: Grid Ref: SE 02570318 Occupants: Pilot and Navigator – both killed The dead were removed last and taken to Uppermill Mortuary.Ī Tiger Moth in 1989 – By Towpilot – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, The eight survivors were carried down on stretchers to ambulances waiting at Greenfield. They were joined by local people including workers from Greenfield Mill. Two farmers working below rushed up the steep incline to the crash scene and managed to pull some survivors from the wreckage. 21 passengers and all 3 crew members were killed but there were 8 survivors. The pilot, Captain Pinkerton, was flying with 2 other crew members and 29 passengers.ĭue to a navigational error, they descended at the wrong point through the cloud and crashed. It was on its final approach to Ringway (now known as Manchester Airport) having flown from Belfast. The most notable event at Dove Stone was on the 19th August 1949 when a BEA Dakota G-AHCY crashed on Wimberry Stones Brow (near Indian’s Head). In each case, I have given a summary of what happened but if you are interested it is well worth reading the full stories of these incidents which are most interesting.ĭOUGLAS DAKOTA G-AHCY British European Airways (BEA)ĭATE: 19th August 1949 Impact Site: Grid Ref: SE 01550245: Occupants: Three crew and twenty-one passengers. Anybody intending to visit these sites should check the detailed information available in various books and websites. There are few or no remains of the aircraft at these four crash sites. In the Dovestones area, there are four confirmed crash sites with other sites just off the map close by. There are scores of aircraft crash sites in and near to the Peak District National Park boundary and there is a mass of information on the Internet with several books published about these crashes. ![]() YEOMAN HEY RESERVOIR – construction 1876 – 1880.CHEW RESERVOIR – construction 1907 – 1912.GREENFIELD RESERVOIR – construction 1897 – 1902.BOOKLET of DOVE STONE RESERVOIR CONSTRUCTION.DOVE STONE RESERVOIR – construction 1960 – 1967.WATER TREATMENT WORKS 1989 BUCKTON CASTLE.EVEREST comes to DOVE STONE – VISIT by LORD HUNT.MAP FOOTPATHS at DOVE STONE before and after 1990.MAP SHOWING POSITION of the DOVE STONE – 1840. ![]()
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