Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 05/07/1962 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Lt G.W.N. Jones, RN, C Squadron A&AEE observer |
| Aircraft | Blackburn Buccaneer S Mk 1 XN922 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Handling trials with asymmetric bomb load |
| Incident location | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Boundary layer blow system not available to pilot and aircraft crashd into offices on take-off, killing one man and seriously injuring another. Pilot survived, observer killed |