Den 12. januar 1945 kl. 21.05 blev HAL MZ805 på en minelægningsoperation til Flensborg Fjord skudt ned af en tysk natjager.

Flyet eksploderede i luften og styrtede ned øst for Langeland. Intet spor af hverken fly eller besætning. (Kilde: AOD) Se Minelægningsområder og  p385MACR.

Pilot Officer Harold Allen Carruthers, 24 år, var søn af Clinton I. og Margaret E. Carruthers, Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 280 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

On 12 January 1945 at 21.05 hours HAL MZ805 was shot down by a German night fighter, while it was on a minelaying operation to the Flensburg Fjord.
The plane exploded in the air and crashed east of Langeland. Lost without trace. (Source: AOD) See Minelaying areas and p385MACR.

Pilot Officer Harold Allen Carruthers, 24, was the son of Clinton I. and Margaret E. Carruthers, of Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 280, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 141.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 424 (Tiger) Squadron *  424 Squadron RCAF Association * 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron
Halifax *  Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax III MZ805 QB-X took off from RAF Skipton-on-Swale at 17.22 hrs on 12 JAN 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 

Vintage Wings of Canada has the story of Manitoba Ghost Lakes with details about Mackie Lake named after Flying Officer A.M. Mackie of this crew. 7 airmen.