Grave of Francis Gordon Haydon
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Grave of Francis Gordon Haydon
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 9 Dec 2016
A Sergeant pilot, in the RAFVR who was killed 9th June 1943 age 31 while training in Hudson P5134 of 2 Coastal OTU, (Operational Training Unit). Three other crewmembers were also killed in the crash near North Cowton, Yorkshire. On 8th June 1943 this No.1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit aircraft took off from Thornaby airfield at 23:35hrs to undertake a training flight. Due to bad weather the aircraft was unable to land at Thornaby on completion of the flight and the crew received instructions to divert to Middleton St George. The pilot then requested that they land at Scorton and was in their landing circuit when the aircraft turned sharply and stalled. Because the aircraft was coming in to land there was not enough height to recover from this stall and the aircraft dived into the ground near East Lingy Moor Farm, North Cowton and sadly all on board were killed.
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