Date:	Friday 29 November 1946
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito PR Mk 34
Owner/operator:	58 Sqn RAF
Registration:	RG199
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Coombe Park Farm, 1 mile north west of Pangbourne, Berkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Benson, Oxfordshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito RG199: Took off for a test flight. 29/11/1946
(S/O Cumberledge (pass.) she was flying to gain air experience.)  The Mosquito was flying in a developed cumulous-nimbus cloud when the pilot lost control. The aircraft went into a dive; on pulling out of the dive the airframe was overstressed, and broke up in flight. The aircraft lost the starboard wing and the tailplane and crashed at Coombe Park Farm, 1 mile north west of Pangbourne, Berkshire.
Crew: 
S/Ldr (33472) George Keith Ross DRIMMIE (pilot) RAF: killed 
S/O (7014) Patricia Mary Bridget CUMBERLEGE (Photo Interpreter/pass.) WAAF: killed

1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt.
2. ORB 58 Sqdn RAF: AIR27/2424
3. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505062
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/28/W2369:
5. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578215
6. https://www.bensingtonhistory.org/benson-1939-1945
7. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949
8. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records cumberlege
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._58_Squadron_RAF#Post-war_operations
11. https://cumberbatch.org/genealogy/showsource.php?sourceID=S8201&tree=tree1

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Jan-2014 17:06	Nepa	Added
17-Sep-2014 11:43	wilbur	Updated [Location, Narrative]
24-Oct-2014 17:01	Siczak	Updated [Total fatalities, Narrative]
06-Aug-2015 18:57	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location]
21-Nov-2018 11:49	hillwalker2018Burnle	Updated [Source, Narrative]
02-May-2019 21:23	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Narrative, Operator]
18-Nov-2019 18:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
18-Nov-2019 18:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities]
18-Nov-2019 21:38	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]
05-Jul-2021 10:06	Next	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Source, Operator]
01-Jul-2022 09:56	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
02-Jul-2022 10:18	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]
25-May-2023 08:14	Nepa	Updated [[Narrative, Operator]]
25-May-2023 15:40	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[[Narrative, Operator]]]