Accident near Birmingham, Sep/Oct 1958
Hello.
I wonder if anybody is able to shed any light on an accident which happened near Birmingham (then known as Elmdon) in September or early October 1958?
I have very little information, other than the aircraft (possibly a Rapide) and probably a single pilot operation, crashed into a field at night due to lack of fuel. There may have been fatalities. The only record of comms between the aircraft and Elmdon was the Homer operators radio log, as it seems that an engineer had tried to listen in and, in so doing, had disconnected the feed to the ATC tape recorders. The engineer was handed his cards on the spot.
The pilot is believed to have been a John or Johnnie Atkinson. The partial aircraft registration may have been G-VL.
Can anyone shed any light on this, or suggest a source?
Thank you
P