Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 14/02/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr C.B. Critchley, de Havilland TP |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Mosquito Mk VI HJ664 |
| Took off from | Hatfield, Hertfordshire |
| Purpose of flight | First production test flight |
| Incident location | Colney Heath, Hertfordshire |
| Incident details | ½hr after take-off, aircraft was seen executing slow rolls at 3,000ft. Seconds later it entered a spin from which it did not recover |