Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 23/08/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr J. de Havilland, TP; Mr J.H.F. Scrope, Technical Assistant; Mr G.V. Gibbens, TP; Mr G.J. Carter, Flight Shed Foreman |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Mosquito Mk VI HJ734 and HX897 |
| Took off from | Hatfield, Hertfordshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | St Albans, Hertfordshire |
| Incident details | Aircraft violently collided at 500ft and disintegrated |