Valiant WP210 'crash', Wittering 5th May 1959

[Hipper]

'5 May 1959 RAF Wittering: A Valiant landing from exercise Mayflight carrying a 2000lb nuclear weapon crashed. Plane no WP210 Flown by Sqn Ldr D.C. Gordon with FL Higgs.'

I found this here:

http://www.keme.co.uk/~defcon/news.htm

Does anyone know anything about this? I believe it's 49 squadron plane but Eric Morgan makes no mention of it in his Valiant book.

[ZH875]

From:http://www.ukserials.com/


WP210 Vickers Valiant B1 f/f 27/01/1955, d/d 01/04/1955, s.o.c. 01/03/1965 as CAT 5(s) at Marham


So if it did crash in May '59, it wasn't cat 5.

[AR1]

with the greatest respect, most of that falls into the rubbish surrounding the military category.
These websites abound - the UK's area 51 (Machrihansish) springs to mind and its complete bollocks. Or COBOL as the programmers named it.