The aircraft was on a training flight with a simulated number 1 engine failure. The engine was shut down and the propeller was feathered. Then the remaining engine began to fail due to magneto problems. The crew attempted to unfeather the no. 1 prop in order to restart the engine. They failed to unfeather the prop and a forced landing was carried out. No 30 (Transport) Squadron Operations Record Book, Abingdon Feb 1952. Valetta 827 piloted by Wing Commander [Morris Michael KANE [MBE, MiD (37045)] crashed from unknown causes. None of the crew was killed though some injuries resulted. [Dec 1952. No blame was allotted to the pilot for this accident.] Tuesday 26 February 1952. The aircraft was on a training flight with a simulated number 1 engine failure. The engine was shut down and the propeller was feathered. Then the remaining engine began to fail due to magneto problems. The crew attempted to unfeather the no. 1 prop in order to restart the engine. They failed to unfeather the prop and a forced landing was carried out. Liverpool Echo, Tuesday 26 February 1952 PLANE HITS HOOF TOPS A Valetta from R.A.F. Station. Abingdon, on a local flight, skimmed the rooftops at Church Walk, near Oxford, to-day, knocking off tiles and crashed through a wall. The pilot and another officer were injured. A third member of tee crew escaped unhurt. Daily Mirror, Wednesday 27 February 1952 He dialled 999 before plane crashed ARTHUR ROUSE, the lock-keeper at Iffley (Oxon) looked to the sky. He ran into his house, lifted his phone, dialled 999, and said into the phone: ?A plane has crashed right … now.? And as he spoke, a gleaming RAF Valetta troop carrier landed in the back garden of John Reginald Dilks?s general store. It had knocked the chimney pot off Mrs. Lang?s house, a few tiles off other villagers? houses. and crashed through a wall to the garden. Five minutes earlier, at 1.10 p.m., Mrs. Dilks had looked into her garden to see how the chickens were. At 1.20 Mrs. Rutherford cycled to the shop, and said over the counter: ?Fancy having such a big aeroplane in your garden.? Mrs. D. thought she was fooling. She stopped snipping out tea coupons from a ration-book, popped out the back door and ? there it was, plus two fire engines, police, RAF men, and an ambulance just about to carry off the slightly injured crew of three. ?Well,? said Mrs. Dilks to Mrs. Rutherford. ?Fancy that, and no one told me.? Birmingham Daily Post, Wednesday 27 February 1952 PILOT GUIDES FALLING PLANE FROM HOUSES An RAF plane with one engine stopped and the other engine ?missing? was guided away from the village of Iffley yesterday by the pilot. The plane which had flown from Abingdon was seen to lose height quickly. When it appeared to be falling towards houses the pilot turned it towards an open field. In approaching field, the plane touched a tree which swung it away towards a house, the chimney stack of which was damaged. One wing of the plane hit a wall and almost immediately an engine fell from the plane. When over field wreckage fell from the plane which again turned round and crashed. Villagers saw an airman crawl out of the wreckage and rescued two other airmen, including Wing Cmdr Kane, who were taken the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Mr T. A. Bartlett, who in his garden when he saw the plane approaching his house, saw it hit the tree, the house, and then heard the crash. Oxford firemen kept watch over the wreckage for some hours to prevent it catching fire. The petrol from tanks had run into a nearby brook which was sprayed with foam. [Other newspapers reported ?the plane was seen in difficulty over Rose Hill, near the Morris motor works.?]