Blackburn B-26 Botha crash, Jul 8, 1940 (1 killed), Eller...
Blackburn B-26 Botha accident on July 8, 1940 near Ellerker Yorkshire, United Kingdom with 1 fatality. Cause: The aircraft entered a spin from which...
- Date: July 8, 1940
- Aircraft: Blackburn B-26 Botha
- Location: Ellerker Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Fatalities: 1
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The aircraft entered a spin from which the pilot could not recover.
Botha L6205, newly built at Brough, was being test flown near Brough airfield on 8 July 1940. It entered a spin, the pilot could not recover, and it crashed into an oat field at Ellerker. The test pilot Douglas Frank Charles Brecknell was killed.