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I could be wrong but I think the unfortunate skipper's name was Colin H.
I was in aircraft No5 with Geoff Howard and I don't recall the wx being particularly bad - little bit of mist low down, but my memory is at odds with other people who have posted on this subject before - i.e. the Andover wx ship reporting back about poor conditions.
I am still in touch with Joe O who was the nav in No4 and Chris P, the skipper in No6, and none of us can recall any involvement by Andovers.
Sadly it was a stupid idea for the first sortie of a 2 week detachment to be a 9 ship formation commencing at night. Commonsense would have dictated that the initial sorties should have been singletons, then 3 ships by day building up to a 9 ship finale at night. But then I was only a newly promoted Flt Lt, so what would I know?