Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 09/08/1944 |
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Casualties | Flt Lt H.J. Camps, A&AEE High Altitude Flight TP; Flt Lt T.G. Thomas, A&AEE High Altitude Flight TP |
Aircraft | de Havilland Mosquito B Mk 20 KB209 |
Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
Purpose of flight | not known |
Incident location | Blandford, Dorset |
Incident details | Aircraft seen to dive from 5,000ft to 1,000ft, roll inverted and hit the ground |