Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 31/03/1954 |
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Casualties | Gp Cpt G.N. Hancock ETPS |
Aircraft | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 WH312 |
Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
Purpose of flight | not known |
Incident location | Mytchett Green, Hampshire |
Incident details | Having experienced an engine failure, the pilot lost control when turning on to finals at Farnborough |