ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 65665
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| Date: | 16-NOV-1960 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hunting Jet Provost T.2 |
| Owner/operator: | Hunting Aircraft Ltd |
| Registration: | G-AOUS |
| MSN: | P.84/14 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Langford, 3 miles south of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Luton Airport, Befordshire (LTN/EGGW) |
| Luton Airport, Befordshire (LTN/EGGW) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed at Langford, 3 miles south of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire on 16/11/1960 on routine test flight (reportedly diving trials). Aircraft was recovering from a dive to maximum design speed when the nose wheel descended, opening the wheel bay doors, which detached. This caused nose-up trim change and severe over stressing leading to the detachment of both wings and total break-up of aircraft structure
Pilot - Hunting test pilot Lt-Cdr J.R.S. Overbury - killed. Registration G-AOUS cancelled by the CAA on 21/8/1962 as "PWFU" ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use")
Sources:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AOUS.pdf
http://www.jetprovostheaven.com/jpt2/jpt2history.html
http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/8471
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959
http://thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/memorial/entry.php?id=265
https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/300158-information-lt-cdr-john-overbury-nay-test-pilot.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1960/1960%20-%202758.PDF
http://thetartanterror.blogspot.com/2008/02/lt-cdr-jack-rs-overbury-19xx-1960.html
Survey of accidents to aircraft in the United Kingdom 1960 / CAA
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Jun-2009 12:17 | VHKDK | Added |
| 25-Nov-2012 00:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 25-Nov-2012 13:20 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 30-Jan-2015 20:01 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 28-May-2015 09:10 | harro | Updated [Source] |
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