Crashes of three R.C.A.F. planes and the disappearance of a fourth in the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia area were disclosed by Air Force officials
yesterday.
In announcing the crash of two planes from one flight, the Eastern Air Command at Halifax cleared up the mystery of an explosion that shook Charlottetown Wednesday night. The blast came from a depth charge that
was among a number jettisoned by the machines when they got into difficulties over Charlottetown.
Four men are known dead and three are missing in the loss of these two planes. One came down near Shediac, N.B., and its crew of three is missing. The four-man crew of the other machine was killed when it
crashed near its home base at Dartmouth, N.S.
Crew members on a steamer in the Bay of Fundy were eye-witnesses to the flaming crash of a plane from Yarmouth, N.S. in the Bay of Fundy yesterday. Four men were listed by the R.C.A.F. as "missing and
believed killed" but two bodies were known to have been brought to Digby, N.S.
Eye-witnesses on the ship said the plane burst into flames and exploded before it hit the water. The vessel made its way to the spot but could find nothing but a patch of oil.
At Pennfield, N.B., R.C.A.F. officials reported a plane with four men aboard missing from the base there. The machine took off yesterday on a routine flight.
The officers said they had no confirmation of an unofficial report that a plane had crashed near (Princess?) Park, in the Grand Lake district. The Pennfield craft, when last heard from, was over that area.
SOURCE: The Montreal Gazette (Montreal, PQ) - February 27, 1943.
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