Pilots Log Book

[MiG25]

I've seen a Pilot's Log book with notes like "Liberator Search" etc, is there a somewhat easy way to find out for example if it was found?

Thanks.

 

[55recce]

You need to supply more information such as name of pilot, date, location etc. The BC Aviation Museum where I volunteer has extensive records on crashed aircraft but Liberator search alone is not enough to go on.....

 

[superted]

Do Google for "The Lady Be Good" a B-24 Liberator that disappeared on its first mission in 1943 in the Libyian desert and finally found by Oilmen. A guy from Calgary arrived on the scene the day after it was found.

 

[superted]

The air museum in Dayton Ohio has some artifacts from the plane and multi photos. Evidently a violent windstorm in the 1960's had blown away the sand that had covered it since 1943. The plane with a totally green navigator had overflown their home base after a bombing mission in Sicily/Italy and flown until the A/C had totally depleted its fuel and crash landed ... there were survivors of the crash BUT they perished from lack of water while actually walking AWAY from their home base.. I have a hardcover book which details the "accident chain"

 

[tbhupe]

You have to know where and when they were searching to find out what they were looking for (specific aircraft number). Then you can find out if it was found and the events surrounding its disappearance.

 

[MiG25]

You have to know where and when they were searching to find out what they were looking for (specific aircraft number). Then you can find out if it was found and the events surrounding its disappearance.

From where? I can find out the date and the airfield the searcher took off from, nothing about the specific aircraft other than it was a Liberator.

 

[55recce]

Date and location would help. From what I can recall there were only a few Liberators that went down in BC

 

[Dosing]

Google the date and province, or even just the year. Like 55recce says you need more info than just a Liberator. If you know the year and month then you should be able to find it via the internet pretty easily, here's one from 45 in BC for example:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=175494

 

[MiG25]

Here's one more specific Aug 12, 1943 "Search for (M.3) Missing Anson".

 

[shredder]

The air museum in Dayton Ohio has some artifacts from the plane and multi photos. Evidently a violent windstorm in the 1960's had blown away the sand that had covered it since 1943. The plane with a totally green navigator had overflown their home base after a bombing mission in Sicily/Italy and flown until the A/C had totally depleted its fuel and crash landed ... there were survivors of the crash BUT they perished from lack of water while actually walking AWAY from their home base.. I have a hardcover book which details the "accident chain"

Did the naviguesser not know how to read a compass?

 

[Dosing]

Here's one more specific Aug 12, 1943 "Search for (M.3) Missing Anson".

Country? Province?

 

[MiG25]

Country? Province?

It doesn't say.

Places noted on other pages are Bagotville, Megantic, and St John's. There is a lack of specifics. Sometimes it will just say "Nite" or "Rattle" or "Landed St John's".

 

[Dosing]

Well those are east coast, do you have a year?
This was one of the bigger searches carried out. If you are talking during the war years, there were a few that ended up in the woods of northern Quebec and Labrador.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Saint-Donat_RCAF_Liberator_III_crash

 

[XRCD011]

Did the naviguesser not know how to read a compass?

Yes he did, what happened was the Lady be good had a strong tail wind that sped it along and directly over the base they where returning to, they continued flying south thinking they where over the Mediterranean Sea and being night the belief was the crew looking down thought the dunes where waves. The Liberator flew into a part of the desert that was never visited nor explored till an oil company flew over and spotted the wreckage. The aircraft was never buried it just sat there waiting to tell its story that is easy to look on on the net.