Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 31/10/1949 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr M.A. Graves DFC, Westland TP |
| Aircraft | Westland Wyvern Mk 2 VP113 |
| Took off from | Yeovil, Somerset |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Yeovil, Somerset |
| Incident details | Engine failure following a high-speed low-level pass across airfield and climb to 2,500ft. Attempted crash landing on airfield after crossing boundary at 200 m.p.h., touched down three-quarters of way across airfield and overshot into housing estate, demolishing one house and killing three civilians |