Date:	Thursday 25 February 1954
Time:	day
Type:	English Electric Canberra B.2
Owner/operator:	Handley Page Aircraft Ltd
Registration:	WJ622
MSN:	HP189B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Napsbury Railway Station near Radlett, Hertfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Radlett, Hertfordshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Crashed on production test flight, flight controls jammed on take-off, aircraft hit railway embankment at Napsbury Railway Station, adjacent to the Handley Page airfield at Radlett Hertfordshire. Both crew killed.

Crew of Canberra WJ622
Flight Lt K.W. Dalton-Golding DFC, Handley Page deputy Chief Test Pilot
Mr M.G. Goodridge, Flight Test Officer

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.156 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. http://thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/memorial/entry.php?id=231
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 233/201: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424322
4. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=989
5. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 73)
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WJ

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Jun-2008 15:54	JINX	Added
17-Jun-2008 10:37	JINX	Updated
08-Apr-2013 18:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative]
11-Apr-2013 18:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
11-Jun-2013 19:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
26-Jun-2017 20:29	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
07-Jan-2020 19:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]