Sutton Wick air crash 60th anniversary
 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Wick_air_crash

The 5th March will be the 60th anniversary of what was then the RAF's worst peacetime accident. A service will start at 1030am at St Peter's Church, Church Lane, Drayton OX14 0JS. Please feel free to attend if you wish to pay your respects to those who lost their lives in this tragic accident.

Thanks for the reminder.

I never knew that this one tragedy caused all non-return valves to have different threads at either end to ensure they cannot be installed the wrong way round - even to this day. I wonder how many lives have been saved because of their sacrifice. RIP.

My late stepfather was a National Service RAF dog handler. He was the only member of his training group to be allocated a bitch. At the end of the course, all the other handlers were given overseas postings but he wasn't as bitches were not allowed overseas. He was really envious as all his course mates were driven down to Abingdon to catch their transport flight to Cyprus. The rest is history.
There but for the grace of God go I.

Unfortunately my father's brother was one of those who was not so lucky.

I'm rather surprised by the attribution to this accident of making input and output ports different on NRVs . During an FSO course in London, we attended the AAIB's "Black Museum" at Shell Mex House. An ancient NRV there (duly tagged with a cardboard label) was said to have been the cause of the loss of an RAF aircraft (a Vickers Valencia?) in a pre-war accident. We were told It was that accident that ensured that NRV ports were designed thereafter to prevent them being confused and thus fitted the wrong way round.

thanks for the heads up - my sisters husband on his National service saw the crash and helped in the rescue - he said it was awful scene

he his 80 next month

Can I assume that there will be an official RAF presence?