Aircraft Crash Site 

Spitfire X4913

Crashed 3RD November 1941

 

The location of the crash site is on the north east face of Pen Y Fan at approximately 800m. 

The aircraft crashed during an operational training exercise and flew straight into the north east face in low cloud. The pilot was killed instantly.

No wreckage can be seen from an accessible area but can be viewed by looking down from the top of Pen Y fan down into the treacherous Cwm Sere gully.

 

Spitfire X4913 of 53 operational training units based at Llandow crashed into the Mountainside at Pen Y Fan on the Northeast face, a very treacherous gulley known as Cwm Sere on the 3rd November 1941, the wreckage was not found for 9 months later. The pilot F/S Gardner was killed.