On the 29th of August 1943 this aircraft had just taken off from Rufforth for a training flight when a minute later it collided with another Halifax, both aircraft crashed near Copmanthorpe, York killing all on board both aircraft and injuring some civilians on the ground. This aircraft was flying directly into the sun and it was thought that the crew had not seen the other aircraft before they collided head on. The Riccall aircraft immediately lost its tail section.

The aircraft had been damaged only two weeks prior to this crash when it hit its tailplane on a fence when landing on the wrong runway at Rufforth.

Pupil Pilot - Sgt Donald C Ravine RAF (569748), aged 22, of St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (sec C, row A, grave 8).

Instructor Pilot - F/O Murray W Bonner RCAF (J/21902), aged 23, of Miniota, Manitoba, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (sec C, row A, grave 5).

F Eng - Sgt Norman J Hart RAFVR (1194241), aged 22, of Longham. Buried Hampreston Churchyard.

F Eng - Sgt John H Townsend RAFVR (1568521), aged 20, of Lawton. Buried Dundee Eastern Necropolis.

W Op - Sgt Peter C Parrott RAFVR (1174427), aged 23, Sunbury-on-Thames. Buried Sunbury New Cemetery.

AG - Sgt Frederick D Read RAFVR (1323650), aged ? Of Upper Sydenham, London. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (sec C, row A, grave 7)

AG - Sgt Albert E Gilverson RCAF (R/184720), aged 21, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (sec C, row A, grave 6)

Civilian - Mr Matthew Atkinson, seriously injured.

Civilian - Master John Dawson, seriously injured.

The two RCAF graves at Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.