Investigation into the cause of the accident resulted in a two-month delay in deliveries, so the Royal Air Force (RAF) did not begin receiving Liberator IIs until August 1941. Bruce Kilpatrick Craig, was posthumously commissioned into the Army Air Corps, and on 25 August 1941 the airfield in his hometown was renamed Craig Field, later Craig Air Force Base. The flight engineer, Army Reserve 2nd Lt. All five of the civilian crew were killed.
1940s 2 June 1941 The first British Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II, AL503, on its acceptance flight for delivery from the cat company Consolidated Aircraft Company plant at San Diego, California, crashed into San Diego Bay when the flight controls froze. Fully half of the 18,188 Liberators were constructed by the Ford Motor Company at the purpose-built Willow Run plant at Ypsalanti, Michigan, and were appended -FO. North American plant B in the city of Grand Prairie, Texas, produced aircraft appended -NT. Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa, Oklahoma, built airframes appended -DT. Consolidated production at Fort Worth, Texas, was appended -CF. Consolidated airframes built in San Diego, California, were appended -CO.
The B-24 was built by a consortium of companies. Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express and PB4Y Privateers are also included. Combat losses are not included except for some cases denoted by singular circumstances. This is a partial list of notable accidents and incidents involving the Consolidated-designed B-24 Liberator. Main article: Consolidated B-24 Liberator
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