Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On 3 June 2001, a Bell P-63A crashed during the Biggin Hill International Air Fair in London, England, killing the pilot. The pilot was at the top of a vertical maneuver when he appeared to have lost control of the plane. This was the second plane accident in 24 hours at Biggin Hill following the crash of a de Havilland Vampire that killed both ...
On 30 March 2008, a Cessna 501 Citation crashed into a house in Farnborough, London (UK), near Biggin Hill Airport, from where the aircraft had taken off a short time before. There were no survivors among the five people on board, which included former racing drivers Richard Lloyd and David Leslie .
September 21 – (Biggin Hill, London, England) – A Douglas A-26 Invader crashed during an air display. The aircraft was attempting to carry out a climbing roll in front of the crowd when the nose dropped sharply, and the aircraft continued rolling until it dropped vertically into a valley. The pilot and seven passengers were killed.
Bell P-63 Kingcobra. The single-engine Bell P-63 Kingcobra was never used in combat by the United States, according to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The Soviet Union received ...
The Biggin Hill Invader crash was an accident involving a twin-engined Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft which crashed during an airshow on 21 September 1980. [2] The pilot and six passengers were killed, prompting the Civil Aviation Authority to introduce rules preventing passengers from being carried during air displays. [3]
On November 12, 2022, two World War II–era aircraft, a B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra, collided mid-air and crashed during the Wings Over Dallas air show at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, Texas, United States. [1]
The King has said he is “profoundly shocked and saddened” after an army helicopter collided with a commercial plane in Washington DC, killing 67 people. The crash on Wednesday night, between ...
On 15 October NJ277 a Short Sunderland GR.5 of No. 230 Squadron RAF crashed into a hill in bad visibility near Tuas, Johore, Malaya., 22 killed. [1] On 19 October BZ928 a Consolidated Liberator B.3 of No. 144 Maintenance Unit crashed five miles south of Maison Blanche, French Algeria following engine failure and stall, 15 killed. [1]