The accident that cost the lives of 24 Royal Canadian Air Force airmen, on October 1 20 1943, has been the worst accident in the history of Canadian military aviation. During a major snowstorm, with bad maps and pilot error, as contributing factors the plane crashed near the top of Montaigne Noire (Black Mountain) in the vicinity of 46.250367-74.297133 with pieces of the aircraft spread in the forest. The B-24D Liberator disappeared in the sparsely populated area until the wreckage was located on June 20 1946 during an aerial search for another aircraft which had disappeared, the crash site was searched and the crew interred in a cemetery on the site.
The 24 airmen who perished comprised the crew of two B-24's on leave for few days and the crew members of 3701 'Harry' that was used as a transport that night flying out of Gander Newfoundland.
With the crash site accessible by hikers and the general public the grave site was eventuality vandalized in 1985 and the remains were moved down the mountain to the St. Donat cemetery and reburied in a mass grave with a Monument erected in their Honor.
The 24 airmen who perished comprised the crew of two B-24's on leave for few days and the crew members of 3701 'Harry' that was used as a transport that night flying out of Gander Newfoundland.
With the crash site accessible by hikers and the general public the grave site was eventuality vandalized in 1985 and the remains were moved down the mountain to the St. Donat cemetery and reburied in a mass grave with a Monument erected in their Honor.
The accident that cost the lives of 24 Royal Canadian Air Force airmen, on October 1 20 1943, has been the worst accident in the history of Canadian military aviation. During a major snowstorm, with bad maps and pilot error, as contributing factors the plane crashed near the top of Montaigne Noire (Black Mountain) in the vicinity of 46.250367-74.297133 with pieces of the aircraft spread in the forest. The B-24D Liberator disappeared in the sparsely populated area until the wreckage was located on June 20 1946 during an aerial search for another aircraft which had disappeared, the crash site was searched and the crew interred in a cemetery on the site.
The 24 airmen who perished comprised the crew of two B-24's on leave for few days and the crew members of 3701 'Harry' that was used as a transport that night flying out of Gander Newfoundland.
With the crash site accessible by hikers and the general public the grave site was eventuality vandalized in 1985 and the remains were moved down the mountain to the St. Donat cemetery and reburied in a mass grave with a Monument erected in their Honor.
The 24 airmen who perished comprised the crew of two B-24's on leave for few days and the crew members of 3701 'Harry' that was used as a transport that night flying out of Gander Newfoundland.
With the crash site accessible by hikers and the general public the grave site was eventuality vandalized in 1985 and the remains were moved down the mountain to the St. Donat cemetery and reburied in a mass grave with a Monument erected in their Honor.
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