Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 16/08/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt E. Brown, Defford Telecommunications Flying Unit P; Fg Off D.T. Sellick DFC, P; Fg Off G.F. Sellick, AG; Fg Off A.J. Marsh, Radio Location Op; LAC H.D. McCallum; AC2 R.F. Umery (two crews, 1 to fly second aircraft from Boscombe on trials) |
| Aircraft | Avro Anson Mk I DJ184 |
| Took off from | Defford, Worcestershire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Ampney Crucis, Cirencester, Gloucestershire |
| Incident details | Upper wing fabric tore away from structure, aircraft disintegrated in dive to earth from 2,000ft |