Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 19/05/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr A. Smith, Rootes Trainee Engineer |
| Aircraft | Handley Page Halifax Mk II DG223 |
| Took off from | Speke, Lancashire |
| Purpose of flight | Vibration flight test |
| Incident location | Mold, Flintshire |
| Incident details | Incorrectly assembled isolation cock led to failure of all four engines and wheels-up forced landing. Nose section destroyed on impact with hedge |