Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 09/12/1957 |
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Casualties | Flt Lt W.A. Bell, P; Flt Lt K.C.F. Shelley, navigator |
Aircraft | English Electric Canberra B Mk 2 WK129 |
Took off from | Pershore (Radar Research Flying Unit), Worcestershire |
Purpose of flight | Radar trials at 2,000ft |
Incident location | Carnedd Llywelyn, Caernarvonshire |
Incident details | Aircraft flew into high ground at Carnedd Llywelyn |