Date:	Wednesday 7 July 1948
Time:	15:24
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito TR Mk 33
Owner/operator:	ATDU RN
Registration:	TW284
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Locking Road near RAF Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	HMS Siskin /RNAS Gosport, Hampshire
Destination airport:	RAF Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Mosquito TW284 (Airborne Torpedo Development Unit) Took off for training flight. 07/07/1948.
Crashed after wings folded in flight at RAF Weston-super-Mare. The starboard wing of this aircraft suddenly folded up as it became severely overstressed during low-level aerobatics. It was performing a slow roll around 600 feet when one of the wings failed, and crashed at the eastern end of the Weston-super-Mare airport. Pieces of wreckage landed in Locking Road near the airfield perimeter. The pilot and crew were both killed when the aircraft exploded on impact.
Crew:
Sqn/Ldr (39032) David Alastair "Scottie" ROBERTSON DFC (pilot) RAF - killed
Flt/Lt (50646) Anthony George NICHOLS (pass. armaments off.) RAF - killed

1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p 50)
3. Weston-Super-Mare and the Aeroplane by Roger Dudley, Ted Johnson
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/29/W2421: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578267
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Weston-super-Mare#Accidents_and_incidents
6. "Mosquito Breaks - Two Die". Western Daily Press. 8 July 1948. p. 4.
7. "News in Brief" Times [London, England] 8 July 1948
8. Fleet Air Arm Fixed Wing Aircraft Since 1946 (Ray Sturtivant, Lee Howard & Mick Burrows, Air Britain, 2004)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-May-2014 17:41	Nepa	Added
29-May-2014 18:56	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Narrative]
21-Sep-2014 19:10	Unites	Updated [Location]
31-Jul-2015 10:55	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
18-May-2019 05:34	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Nature, Narrative, Operator]
01-Dec-2019 22:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative]
01-Dec-2019 22:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative]
02-Dec-2019 10:55	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]
10-Jun-2021 21:22	Anon.	Updated [Location, Operator]
18-Nov-2021 22:23	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Operator]
04-Sep-2022 19:03	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator]