Air Display Accident Lincolnshire c1954
The sad event which occurred at the air display in Nevada recently has
reminded me of an accident at a display in Lincolnshire about 1954, but which was not as serious as the one in America.
My recollection is that our family were leaving the Lincolnshire display
when a 'plane either exploded in the air or just broke apart. This must have been in the afternoon as my father was about to take us home to Boston in Lincolnshire.
Two of my brothers and I had to dive under parked cars to escape the falling
debris but my youngest brother did not: he survived with his dungarees slashed from
hip to ankle, fortunately without a scratch upon him.
Over the years I have not been able to discover any information about this
accident but one suggestion was that the pilot survived but that a tractor driver was
killed by falling debris. I wonder if any PPRuNe subscribers have any other information.