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No not the Vickers type 271. This aircraft featured a development of a revolutionary wing structure
However, you were correct in that the Vickers Type 271, the Prototype B9/32 K4049 and forerunner of the Wellington, met an unfortunate end when it crashed following the failure of the elevator horn balance during a test flight in April 1937. The pilot was thrown through the roof of the cockpit and escaped by parachute, but the flight engineer, unable to get free, was killed in the crash. The aeroplane was completely destroyed.
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