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Accident English Electric Canberra TT.18 WJ632, 01 May 1970

50 year ago today I lost a neighbour at Boscombe Down

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/21104

DV

DV, the link says everything yet very little :-

Quote:

The pilot lost control of the aircraft at 4,000ft during an asymmetric assessment exercise. He used the incorrect recovery technique; with his concentration on using aileron instead of rudder, the side slip limits were exceeded. The fin stalled and the aircraft spun into Lyme Bay 3½ miles South East of Bridport, Dorset, killing two of the three crew:

I presume the pilot was a Test Pilot and that he had perhaps used the 'incorrect recovery technique' deliberately? At any rate, this is the cost of the words in Pilots Notes, the limitations and the techniques to be used on Squadrons; the cost of airworthiness. Brave men all.
RIP

Very close to the same time as an Oz Canberra went down, 23 March 1970.

Newly-qualified pilot on OCU practicing asymmetrics, got too slow on base turn and spun in, killed pilot and navigator.