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Two Killed in Meteor Jet Crash
22nd December 1954Two pilots were killed and another injured in crashes of three Meteor Jet Aircraft on R.A.F. training flights yesterday.
On a flight from Worksop one aircraft hit a hill near Treeton Colliery, Rotherham, Yorkshire, and exploded on impact. The body of the pilot - Pilot Officer D. G. Edwards - was found 150 yards away.
Flying Officer F. Maxwell, of Romford, Essex, on a flight from Leconfield R.A.F. Station, near Beverley, Yorkshire, was killed when his aircraft crashed in open country three miles from Hull.
In the third accident Flying Officer J. G. Carter, of Maidenhead, from Wattisham Airfield, Suffolk, used his ejector seat to bale out a few seconds before his aircraft crashed near Bentwaters U.S.A.F. Station. He was taken to Hospital with arm and foot injuries.