Royal Air Force
19/08/1918 Handley Page 0/400, serial D4593, of 14 Aircraft Acceptance Park was on a test flight from Castle Bromwich when it lost fabric from a wing and crashed at Maxstoke. This was quoted as the worst accident in the first year of the Royal Air Force and all on board were killed. The pilot was Lt Robert Edward Andrew MacBeth, the son of William John and Annie Colhoun MacBeth, of 60 Brock Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1918.htm
Royal Air Force
19/08/1918 Handley Page 0/400, serial D4593, of 14 Aircraft Acceptance Park was on a test flight from Castle Bromwich when it lost fabric from a wing and crashed at Maxstoke. This was quoted as the worst accident in the first year of the Royal Air Force and all on board were killed. The pilot was Lt Robert Edward Andrew MacBeth, the son of William John and Annie Colhoun MacBeth, of 60 Brock Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1918.htm
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