If it’s Doctor Who, how relevant is historical accuracy, anyway. It’s all sci-fi nonsense so it it hardly matters, does it?

This has got to be a set-up, hasn’t it?

The builders have finished….AT LAST!:D:):p:diablo: And only a month late……:mad:

A very sad day for all at Wyton and in Huntingdon.

The aircraft was performing a practice assymetric overshoot, one engine at flight idle.

When full power was applied to the “good” engine the rudder had insufficent authority to counter the torque, resulting in the fin stalling and the inevitable tragic result.

The BOI requested a subsequent trial to prove this theory. It was performed at high altitude by a test pilot (flying without a navigator) in XH176.

Theory proved correct, but pilot unable to recover from the subsequent spin and ejected at a safe altitude.

What about the comment in the report that it was likely the wings were not level when power was applied. Was this simulated in the test you describe? Although I recall reports at the time that the pilot did not eject to save a school that does not seem to square with the facts in the report which imply that the crash was unavoidable considering the loss of control at low altitude and the steep angle of descent.

That’s a great photo – no wonder he let you use it.;) Great PR for the Shack.

I also remember it vividly,( but being a bit more than 12) living nearby and knowing flightcrew on the base. It was an awful event and the sort of thing which impinges so harshly on the memory. The cause however was likely to have been pilot error – see link. What made you enqire about it now?

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1977/nov/21/canberra-aircraft-accident

I certainly need something………………:D

I did too and was trying to be doubly ironic with the icon! It doesn’t always work, does it?

I’ll get me coat.