I was stationed at RAF North Weald in the RAF Police and was called out to protect the crash site with others.
There was a huge crater that had two what appeared to be furrows radiating from the crater that was caused by the impact due to the earth being displaced.
My picture appeared in either the Daily Express or Mail standing at the bottom of the crater. I contacted the papers to try and get a copy of the photo but they never responded.
Maybe Digging for Britain will make an episode!!
Cheers
Keith Ward
By: Wyvernfan - 3rd March 2021 at 09:56
Ok chaps here you go. A photo of the clipping from the Herts and Essex Observer newspaper showing the crater in which I presume the OP is standing!
By: cometguymk1 - 3rd March 2021 at 08:14
I would be interested 🙂 Also Stortford based
By: Enfield1940 - 2nd March 2021 at 22:48
I am. I live in Bishops Stortford.
By: Wyvernfan - 2nd March 2021 at 14:31
Anyone still interested in this?
By: Wyvernfan - 22nd December 2020 at 18:17
During my time at the Bassingbourn Control Tower Museum I tasked myself with researching as many of the resident 231 OCU Canberra crashes as I could. Somewhere I have a photo copy of the newspaper report from the day after the crash of B.2 WH864, and If my memory serves me correctly there is a small photo of the crater as well.
If you don’t mind waiting I’ll see if I can dig it out over the Christmas break?
By: viscount - 22nd December 2020 at 16:41
Goggled this to find a date and place and came up with, as expected, a link to aviation-Safety.net:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/21043
but also to a prior thread on this forum:
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/81134-ee-canberra-accident-bishops-stortford-1954
Doesn’t help find the photo in question, but fairly impressed with the way Google can substitute for the absence of a site ‘search’ facility.
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December 22, 2020 at 4:26 pm