Can anyone shed any further light on the details surrounding this sad event?
Date: June 13th 1958
Type: Canbera T4
Serial: WT477
Unit: BC Holding Unit
Location: Spital-in-the-Street
Notes: Dived out of the cloud on approach to RAF Helmswell. 3 killed.
Flt Lt John Tetroe, Flt Lt William Rough, Flying Offiver Peter Phillips were all killed.
By: nimgen - 18th September 2012 at 19:57
13 June 1958, WT477 Canberra T4, BCHU
According to ‘Category Five’ by Colin Cummins:
“The pilot contacted Coningsby after take off and cleared the circuit but no further radio calls were made. Some 55 minutes later the aircraft was seen diving inverted at an angle of 45 degrees and at over 500 knots near Hemswell. The cause could not be established but the turn and slip indicator may have been unserviceable and some other instruments concealed because of the nature of the exercise being undertaken”
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September 18, 2012 at 6:39 pm