Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 02/07/1986 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Jim Hawkins, Dunsfold Deputy CTP |
| Aircraft | British Aerospace Hawk 200 (prototype) ZG200 |
| Took off from | Dunsfold, Surrey |
| Purpose of flight | Demonstration flight |
| Incident location | Dunsfold, Surrey |
| Incident details | Having completed a tight turn the aircraft pulled up into a vertical zoom climb and quarter roll. Pitching slowly over the top into inverted flight, the aircraft then began a series of erratic rolls of 10 to 15 degrees to left and right while the nose continued to drop into a steepening inverted dive, eventually passing through the vertical and back into erect flight, though still diving. The aircraft impacted while still 25 degrees nose down, at 300kt. The pilot is thought to have blacked out (G-LOC) during the zoom climb. |
| Web link | Aviation Safety Network entry |