Saturday October 22 - Blackburn Botha crash site, Black Moss, Longdendale Valley
The story of this crash site is especially sad. A 19 year old Air Transport Auxiliary pilot, First Officer Thomas Rogers, seems to have flown this unpopular and unfit-for-purpose 'crate' into the moors on Round Hill, Black Moss, on December 10 1941. He was flying it from the factory where it was built, near Leeds, to an airfield near Chester. When you read about the Blackburn Botha, it's no surprise people regularly lost their lives in them. It's a beautiful day for my tiny quest. As always, I pause for a few minutes' silence to reflect in respect of the fact that someone died here. This wreck and many others are detailed in the book 'Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks Vol 1'.




