2023-09-06 00:00:00
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During a meeting in Farnborough, the first British supersonic jet crashed into the crowd and caused a massacre.
By Frédéric Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos John Derry, driver of the Havilland DH110 who crashed. © DR Published on 06/09/2019 at 00:00 – Modified on 06/09/2023 at 00:00
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On September 6, 1952, a crowd of 130,000 attended the airshow in Farnborough, England. We came as a family, we picnicked on the spot. The atmosphere is joyful. The planes, all British, cut through the sky performing spectacular aerial tricks. Candles, rolls, wing turns, spins, inverted flight, you name it. In the crowd, twenty-nine spectators do not suspect that they are living their last minutes.
Around 2:30 p.m., John Derry, 30, de Havilland test pilot and ace of the Second World War, pushes the throttle on his zinc on the take-off runway. It’s her turn to do the show. He intends to go wild, since he pilots the latest jewel of his firm, the DH110. It’s a monster of power, the…
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