Beaufighter crash 27/8/41, 143 Sqdrn

[alanatabz]

Thanks Chaps

I stay about a mile from Tillery, in the grand scheme of things it is not really on high ground. The Beafighter(s) must have been at low low level.

The person that witnessed the crash, says that "on their way home from school at about 3.30pm when two Beaufighters appeared just over Udny Station. They touched/clipped wings, one flew off back in the direction of Dyce whilst the other, apparently out of control, headed towards Tillery. quickly went to the crash site where the plane was ablaze, and a horrible experience of seeing the pilot and the other crewman being enveloped in flames. It wasn’t very long before help arrived but it was too late. The Beaufighter had come down in the garden behind the gardeners house and a wheel from the undercarriage was lying on top of the gardener’s shed.