Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 22/07/1937 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt E.W. Simmonds |
| Aircraft | Miles Magister L5912 |
| Took off from | Martlesham Heath |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Sea off Suffolk |
| Incident details | After failing to recover from a spin the pilot baled out over the sea. An RAF rescue launch set out to recover him but saw a ferry apparently altering course to pick him up and returned to base. Unfortunately the ferry had seen the launch and resumed its journey. The pilot drowned |