What were the circumstances surrounding the death of Prince George, Duke of Kent on 25th August 1942?

Question

All I know is that he set of in a Short Sunderland flying plane at 13.10 hrs from Evanton and crashed within the hour.

Answer 1

Several theories exist as to why the crash occurred, but in 1990, when the "top secret" label was finally pulled off the MI-6 file on the accident, it had disappeared.

Theory 1:  Sabotage--The Duke of Kent was assassinated because of his Pro-n**i sympathies.

Theory 2: The crash was a cover up for the possible death of Rudolf Hess (who was switched with a double).  Hess was being kept two miles from where the crash occurred.

Theory 3: The instrument panel of the plane may have been tampered with before it took off for Iceland.

Theory 4:  A last minute switch in pilots resulted in an inexperienced pilot flying the craft.  Thus, the crash was the result of pilot error.

Theory 5:  The plane veered off course to look at something, perhaps a ship.

P. S. -- If MI6 was planning something nefarious,  the air space over the Scottish County of Caithness, the least populous county in the United Kingdom, would have been the place to do it.

Answer 2

He died during a tour to RAF bases in Iceland,August 25,1942;the plane carrying him crashed en route,in Northern Scotland.Prince George,Duke of Kent died only seven weeks after the birth of his third child,Michael.

The cause of the crash remains a mystery;some people say that the British Intelligence Agency assasinated him,while others claim that George crashed while "buzzing" a cousin's lodge.Yet another theory has it that he died while undertaking a secret mission involving Rudolf Hess who was

on a mission to broker a peace deal between Germany and Britain. But the most likely reason was failure to reach the correct altitude and airspeed for a safe take-off.

Answer 3

He died in a plane crash and there is a mystery surrounding it.  It is more than likely thatt he was working for the intelligence services.