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| air crash site, Coniston | ||
| locality:- | Great Carrs | |
| locality:- | Broad Slack | |
| civil parish:- | Coniston (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | air crash site | |
| coordinates:- | NY271008 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2700 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2701 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY20 | |
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 CCX86.jpg Pieces in Broad Slack, (taken 22.4.2015)  BJV47.jpg Merlin engine displayed outside the Ruskin Museum, Coniston. (taken 16.9.2005) |
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| hearsay:- |
A Halifax Mk 5 No.LL505 bomber crashed on Great Carrs, Coniston, on a night navigation
training flight from RAF Topcliffe, killing its crew of 8, 22 October 1944. The aircraft
crashed high on Great Carrs; it was found almost intact, but was cut up and pieces
pushed into Broad Slack so that it wouldn't be repeatedly reported. |
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| Hurst, Michael J: 1997: Air Crashes in the Lake District 1936-1976: Airlife:: ISBN
1 85310 874 X |
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