Many other accounts quote this aircraft as crashing on nearby Eel Crag, this was not the case, Scot Crag is a more accurate description of where the accident occured.

On the 24th of January 1944 this aircraft took off from Kinloss, Scotland. The pilot and his flight engineer were to ferry the aircraft down to Kemble, Wiltshire. Whilst flying in poor visibilty and with snow and high winds covering much of the country the two became lost over northern England. At around 12.30hrs the aircraft crashed into Scot Crag, to the west of Keswick killing the two on board instantly. The recovery operation took several months to carry out.

David Earl's book "Hell on High Ground 2" has a detailed account of the crash as well as a photograph of the pilot.

Pilot - F/Cpt Bernard Short ATA, aged ? Of Hull. Buried Ringway Churchyard, Cheshire (Row 3, grave 4).

Flight Engineer - Snr Flt Eng Arthur Bird ATA, aged 29, of Edenbridge, Kent. Buried Edenbridge Cemetery, Kent (Grave 292A)

My wife and I visited the crash site in October 2006, the aircraft crashed just in the cloud base. Peices of the aircraft are scattered down rock and scree for some distance, many of these peices have the best preserved part numbers of any Halifax crash site I've yet visited.