Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 02/03/1955 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt E.H. Edmonds (navigator TFU Defford); Flt Lt F.W.W. Seaman (signaller TFU Defford) |
| Aircraft | Handley Page Hastings C Mk 2 WD484 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Aircraft detached from Defford for radar trials over Larkhill |
| Incident location | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Took off from Boscombe with elevator locks engaged and crashed on airfield in vertical dive from 200ft. In addition to the two fatalities, the pilot and one other crew member were seriously injured and 2 further crew members (FTOs) were uninjured |