Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 26/02/1958 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt R.S. May. A Squadron A&AEE TP; Fg Off J.M.V. Coates, A Squadron A&AEE navigator |
| Aircraft | Gloster Javelin FAW Mk 7 XH714 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Kingston, Hampshire |
| Incident details | The pilot was inadvertently ejected at 5,000ft owing to seat latch not being secured. He was entangled in the seat and unable to leave it. The navigator ejected at 2,000ft but the seat drogue disconnected early and he left the seat at insufficient height for his parachute to deploy |