ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336695
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Date: | Friday 28 May 1948 |
Time: | |
Type: | Miles M.60 Marathon I |
Owner/operator: | Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment |
Registration: | G-AGPD |
MSN: | 6265 |
Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Amesbury -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
Departure airport: | Boscombe Down RAF Station (EGDM) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Miles Marathon G-AGPD took off from Boscombe Down at 13:02 for a fly past and some propeller feathering tests. The pilots had to hold near Boscombe Down until about 13:26 when their time came to perform a flypast. At 13:29 they radioed that they were about to crash. It appeared that a structural failure of the tail had occurred. The aircraft lost height and crashed into trees.
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