TRAGICALLY, a young pilot based at RAF Pershore was killed in a plane crash near Malvern at this time 50 years ago.
The Journal of 1953 reported: "Acting Pilot Officer Douglas Cyril Lewin of Shoreham, Sussex, was killed when the plane he was piloting solo on a training flight from Pershore crashed in a field at Guarlford.
"The twin-engined Oxford aircraft was seen by an observer to be
circling before suddenly tipping up and coming straight to the ground.
Mr Edward Lane of Woodbridge Farm, Guarlford, on whose land the plane crashed, told a reporter that he first notice the aircraft going slightly sideways in a blustering wind and, when he looked again, it had turned right over on its back.
One of the two engines had stopped and there appeared to be a wisp of smoke coming from it.
The plane dived into a field in which there were seven cattle and two horses.
"Acting Pilot Officer Lewin was 19 years old and had been in the RAF for nine months."
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