Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 15/10/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr D.A. Terrill, Blackburn Aircraft TP |
| Aircraft | Fairey Barracuda Mk II BV825 |
| Took off from | Brough, Yorkshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Scunthorpe, Lincs |
| Incident details | Aircraft was heard above cloud with engine running intermittently. It broke cloud shortly afterwards in steep dive, trailing smoke and at high speed. No recovery was apparently attempted before impact |