Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 03/11/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Miss D. Robson BSc, RAE Farnborough bombsight technician. NOTE: all six members of the Halifax's operational crew also lost their lives. They were members of 76 Squadron |
| Aircraft | Handley Page Halifax Mk V LK681 |
| Took off from | Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire |
| Purpose of flight | Air test prior to operations. Miss Robson flew instead of one crew member to check and adjust a new bombsight |
| Incident location | Enthorpe House, Market Weighton, Yorkshire |
| Incident details | The aircraft impacted high ground in poor visibility |