ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231356
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| Date: | Sunday 21 August 1949 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Slingsby T.7 Kirby Cadet |
| Owner/operator: | Army Flying Club |
| Registration: | G-ALMK |
| MSN: | 459 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Odiham, near Basingstoke, Hampshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Slingsby T.7 Kirby Cadet: Ex-BGA.459. First civil registered (C of R 12669/1; Cof A 10504) as G-ALMK on 28.3.49 to Squadron Leader John R Armistead, Trustee of the Army Flying Club, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 21.8.49 when crashed on take off from RAF Odiham, near Basingstoke, Hampshire. The pilot - Laurence Thomas Costigan Heard - was killed. According to a contemporary newspaper report ("Daily Herald" - Monday 22 August 1949)
"PILOT DIES IN GLIDER NOSE-DIVE
Week-end gliding enthusiast, Lawrence (sic) Heard, 27-year-old Territorial, nose-dived to death yesterday in a glider at Odiham RAF station, Hants.
Fourteen colleagues of the Army Flying School saw the crash, which occurred a few minutes after the glider was launched. Heard was dead when his instructor reached the wreck. He lived at Gloucester Avenue, Sidcup, Kent.
An officer at the airfield said last night: "The accident is inexplicable. The glider was in perfect condition."
Registration G-ALMK cancelled same day (21.8.49) as "destroyed".
Sources:
1. Daily Herald - Monday 22 August 1949
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 217/2574: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C576728
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ALMK.pdf
4. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=16085.0
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Odiham#Postwar
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Dec-2019 16:41 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 20-Feb-2020 18:16 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Sep-2023 08:13 | harro | Updated [[Total fatalities, Source, Narrative]] |
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