Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 09/10/1958 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr P.H. Durrant, English Electric FTO |
| Aircraft | English Electric Canberra PR Mk 9 XH129 |
| Took off from | Warton, Lancashire |
| Purpose of flight | 5g manoeuvres at design IAS prior to delivery to A&AEE |
| Incident location | Liverpool Bay |
| Incident details | During one high-g turn, aircraft rolled to starboard and entered steep spiral dive during which pilot ejected. There was no ejection seat in the nose position which the FTO occupied and he was unable to leave the aircraft |