Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 21/03/1950 |
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Casualties | Mr Barraclough, Bristol Aeroplane Company TP; A. Bolton, radio officer; E.C. Brunt, engineer; F.C.T. Pullen, electrician |
Aircraft | Bristol 170 Freighter G-AIHH |
Took off from | Filton, Bristol |
Purpose of flight | Test flight, C of A renewal |
Incident location | Cowbridge, Glamorgan |
Incident details | Crashed in circumstances almost identical to those of May 6, 1949, and leading to structural failure of the fin |