Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 19/01/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Gp Capt J.F.X. McKenna AFC, Commandant ETPS |
| Aircraft | North American Mustang Mk IV KH648 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Familiarisation flight |
| Incident location | Old Sarum, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Ammunition box cover detached at high speed and the aircraft shed a wing crashing on the perimeter of Old Sarum airfield |