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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
Sources:
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 Revision history:
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08-Apr-2013 18:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
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11-Apr-2013 18:30 |
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TB |
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07-Jan-2020 19:53 |
Dr. John Smith |
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