| Date: | Tuesday 1 April 1958 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page HP.81 Hermes IVA |
| Owner/operator: | Skyways |
| Registration: | G-ALDV |
| MSN: | HP.81/22 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1950 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Meesden Green -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | London-Stansted Airport (STN/EGSS) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The Handley Page Hermes was on a test flight when the controls became jammed. Eyewitnesses saw the plane descending in a series of dives and climbed until it crashed and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was caused by the elevator mechanism becoming jammed. This deprived the pilots of control of the aircraft. The jamming was due to the presence of a small extraneous object which entered the control mechanism."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (109-112)
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