Westland Wessex HC2 of the Empire Test Pilot's School photogrpahed on 19th March 1976. The pilot failed to arrest his rate of descent during a transition from rearward to forward flight after hovering in a tail wind. The aircraft struck upward sloping ground in a field adjacent to Boscombe Down village. Both crew received injuries. The forward section of the fuselage was sent to Australia to be used for technical training
Westland Wessex HAS Mk III returns to HMS Osprey/RNAS Portland with wheel-floats inflated
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