Sunday, June 1, 2014

WWII Avro Anson and remains recovered from Vancouver Island.

An Avro Anson and crew of 4 missing since 1942 found by logging crew near Port Renfrew. 


A Second World War training aircraft and the remains of four airmen who went missing in 1942 have been recovered from a remote logging site on Vancouver Island.
The Avro Anson aircraft went missing on Oct. 30, 1942, after it left the air force base at Patricia Bay in Sidney on a navigational training flight.
After the aircraft failed to return to the base as planned, searches failed to locate any wreckage.
Last October, a logging crew working for Teal-Jones Cedar Products on a remote mountainside on the west coast of Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew came upon the wreckage.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ww-ii-aircraft-and-remains-recovered-from-vancouver-island-mountainside-1.2659691
http://www.warplane.com/vintage-aircraft-collection/aircraft-history.aspx?aircraftId=2

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