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Flight Sergeant (Pilot)

Cecil

Higgins

28

British

Royal Air Force

A&AEE (Martlesham Heath)

23rd August 1939

Martlesham

Aircraft Crash during test flight

 

 

His Bristol Bombay L.5808 crashed into the garden of a Bungalow on Main Road, Martlesham. It hit a clump of trees on take off and burst into flames. Incorrect trimming was blamed.

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