Does any body know the details of the mid air explosion that destroyed Empire air's Sunderland 'Golden Horn' G-AFCK military no X8273?
I am told by second hand oral record contemoprary of the crash that the explosion occured on a test flight reqested by the pilot in preparation for a passenger flight.
The Pilot was Capt John Lock.
His second wife, widowed by the incident, married an American (Bruch-Openheimer) from the same base and later moved to America with a son. Johns son may have adopted the name Brook or Bridge in America.
As John was a civilain airline pilot what training if any would he have received to command a plane rigged for fighting? I think the Sunderland had a range of electronic equipment for sub hunting and convoy protection duty.