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has glosseng: The MF-509 was a Vickers Wellington bomber which crashed into the southwest slope of Carreg Goch in the Brecon Beacons, Wales during a night-training mission on November 20, 1944. Although the subsequent RAF report attributed the crash to crew error, it is thought more likely to have been caused by carburetor icing in the Wellington's starboard engine. . The entire Canadian crew on board the bomber was killed: Pilot Sgt Charles Hamel, Navigator Sgt Jules Robert Rene Villeneuve, Bomb Aimer F/Off William Joseph Allison, W/Op/Air Gunner Sgt Joseph Paul Ernest Burke, Air Gunner Sgt Arthur Grouix, and Air Gunner Sgt Gerard Dusablon. They were interred with full military honours in Blacon Cemetery, Chester, England.
lexicalizationeng: MF-509
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