RB-66B-DL Destroyer registration 54-0422 crash information wanted

Tactical reconnaissance refers to gathering photos and other information of enemy troops, equipment, positions, transport, and so on on and near the combat areas.

This is different from strategic reconnaissance which deals with enemy transportation, logistics, manufacturing, and training facilities, and military bases and equipment not near combat areas.

This gives details of the crash and their mission on that day:
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Date: 14-APR-1958
Time:
Type: Douglas RB-66B-DL Destroyer
Owner/operator: 10th TRW, 19th TRS, USAF
Registration: 54-0422
C/n / msn: 44722
Fatalities: Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities: 0
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: 4 miles from RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk – United Kingdom
Phase: Approach
Nature: Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport: Sculthorpe, Norfolk (EGUP)
Narrative:
USAF Douglas RB-66B-DL Destroyer, 54-0422, of the 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 19th TRS, crashed in an open field four miles from RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk, UK, while making a blind landing as part of a routine training flight.

The aircraft was receiving flight instructions from the radar control tower at Sculthorpe. Although the weather was good, the jet was operating under simulated blackout conditions. All three crew were killed:

1st Lt Robert B. Handcock (navigator)
Captain Roger E. Taylor (pilot)
T/Sgt Bernard M. Valencia (gunner)

The Douglas Destroyer was initially manufactured in two separate versions–a reconnaissance version designated RB-66B (Douglas Model 1329) and a bomber version designated B-66B (Douglas Model 1327A). They were basically similar in overall configuration, differing primarily in the equipment carried. The RB-66B carried flash bombs in its bomb bay for night photography missions and was equipped with a battery of reconnaissance cameras. The RB-66B could be fitted with a removable inflight refuelling probe attached to the right side of the forward fuselage.

The first RB-66Bs were issued to the 9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, based at Shaw AFB in South Carolina in January of 1956. They replaced the obsolescent RB-26 Invader. Two more squandrons within the 363rd TRW, the 41st and the 43rd, were equipped with RB-66Bs by the end of the year. The RB-66B very soon became the primary night photographic reconnaissance weapon system of the Tactical Air Command.

The 12th TRS baseed at Itami, Japan, received its first RB-66Bs by the end of 1956. Two RB-66B squadrons were activated within the USAF in Europe.