“Help” I was having a talk with a work mate about a crash at Dunsfold when an aircraft overshot the runway and hit a car on the 281 and killed the driver and passengers of the car and it turned out that the car driver husband was a work mate of the pilot. He thinks I was a P1127 and it happened in the 1960s but the only one I can find is the one in 1975 and it was a HS.125 has this happened twice.
Thanks
By: Rocketeer - 3rd August 2008 at 16:51
please amend title to say it is an old crash!!! it saves me a few heart beats!
By: paul90210 - 2nd August 2008 at 17:39
Hi Thanks for that info I will pass it on to him. I think it shod be renamed Surrey most unlucky airfield!!!
By: Newforest - 2nd August 2008 at 08:02
Confirmation of the bare details of the accident, a sad tragedy.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19751120-1
Welcome to the Forum, Paul.
By: Rich82 - 2nd August 2008 at 01:41
Dunsfold crash
Hi,
No, you are right. The only time is happened was the HS 125 you mention. The aircraft was G-BCUX and on board were John ‘Catseyes’ Cunningham, 2nd pilot D. Wingate and J.A.Johnstone. Shortly after take off the plane hit some birds and both engines lost power. The aircraft landed, but smashed through a field and hedges, across the A281, ending up in the field beyond the road. All the occupants got out safely, but unbeknowst to anyone on board, when the aircraft re-landed, it did so on the roof of a passing car. No-one knew the car had been underneath.
To quote Paul McCue’s book ‘Dunsfold – Surrey’s most secret airfield’ “The car had been on its way back from picking up five girls from schools and, by another bizarre twist of fate, the car’s driver was the wife of one of Dunsfold’s pilots, Leslie Whittington. Of the five girls, two were daughters of the pilot. None of the car’s occupants had stood a chance of survival.”
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