Miles Master DL981
The rebuilt section of wall the aircraft demolished as it crashed , the fragments we found are in this field |
Flying out of Leaconfield to Squires Gate Blackpool on the 16th September 1949, crashed and burst into flames. It appears that the pilot may have been trying to land , but the cloud was low so he could just have become disorientated.
Pilot Reginald B. Price
Flying Officer Sydney I. Rowe
Both were killed in the crash .
They came down 100 yards from the The Pack Horse Inn at Widdop . Clipping the top of the wall on one side of the road , demolishing a section of wall on the other side before coming to rest in an adjacent moor/field .
We have heard rumour that the aircrafts engine amongst other parts is still in the area ...somewhere !
Perhaps buried ,perhaps in a barn or even rolled down off the ridge , who knows ?
Looking towards the pub with the rebuilt wall |
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