Wild camp in the Peaks!
I met up with Ben from @DaleyOutdoors for a wild camp in the Peak District to visit two airplane crash sites, the Bleaklow Bomber, as well as a lesser known crash site, the Blenheim Bomber, on the moors of the Peak District.
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The Bleaklow Bomber was a US Air Force Boeing RB-29A Superfortress called 'Over Exposed'.
It was modified as a reconnaissance aircraft, rather than a bomber and crashed at Higher Shelf Stones on the Bleaklow moorland plateau near Glossop in Derbyshire on 3 November 1948.
Over-Exposed was on a routine daytime flight with two other aircraft, leaving RAF Scampton near Lincoln at around 10:15am and heading to the US Air Force base at Burtonwood near Warrington.
The pilot Captain Landon Tanner and co-pilot Captain Harry Stroud were flying by instruments as visibility was very low with the area covered in low cloud.
Based on the flight time, the crew believed it had passed the hills and began to descend. At about 11:00am 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.
When the aircraft failed to arrive at the Burtonwood airbase, the nearby RAF Mountain Rescue Service was called to search for the missing aircraft.
Already on a training exercise upon the Kinder Scout moors, the RAF Harpur Hill rescue team headed to Bleaklow and located the crash site at about 4:30pm, by which time the light was fading.
The debris of the aircraft was scattered with only the tail section intact and the recovery of the occupants took place the following morning and they were taken to Burtonwood.
All 11 crew and 2 military passengers sadly perished in the crash.
The 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...
This area of the Peak District has been very treacherous for aircraft in the past with 7 airplane crashes here dating from 1939 to 1956.
Out of the 26 people involved in those crashes, only 2 survived.
BRISTOL BLENHEIM BOMBER
Blenheim Mk.I L1476 of No.64 Sqn of the RAF was a British light bomber aircraft which crashed on Sykes Moor 30th January 1939 while on a training flight from RAF Church Fenton near Tadcaster
The crew had taken off from Church Fenton to carry out a local flying exercise, both of the crew were fairly new to the Squadron and Church Fenton so they were familiarising themselves with the surrounding area.
The aircraft failed to return from the exercise and was marked as missing
It was on the 12th February, a full two weeks since the aircraft disappeared, that the wreck was discovered by a member of a local walking club who was trying to catch up with his party.
The bodies of the 2 airmen were found some distance back along the planes flightpath, suggesting the men had bailed out but tragically, were too close to the ground to use their parachutes.
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10 июн 2023
