14 Aircraft Acceptance Park Handley Page O/400 of the Royal Air Force took off from Castle Bromwich Aerodrome.

While flying over North Warwickshire, the pilots lost control of the aircraft and crashed into a field at Maxstoke, North Warwickshire, killing all seven crew on board.

[1] The pilots were Canadian Lt. Robert Edward Andrew MacBeth and Lt. Frederick James Bravery.

Albert J. Winrow and H. Simmons were to make up war load to pilot's instructions and G. Greenland was responsible for the petrol pumps.

It was the deadliest accident involving the Royal Air Force at the time.