Originally Posted by
treadigraph
It's detailed in Bramson and Birch's "Tiger Moth Story".
Incorrect nuts fitted to the wing bolts it says - the crew were doing aerobatics, left and right mainplanes broke away so the occupants bailed out; the wingless fuselage went through the roof of a house, ending up with its spinner resting on the sitting room floor and the tail sticking out of the roof! No one hurt...
Ah, thankyou treadigraph, I might now peddle my 'knowledge' to the newspaper and make myself feel rather important.
The house mentioned, the paper states, was in Willesden avenue.