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Kevin Whyman (4 October 1975 – 1 August 2015) was an English rower and air pilot. Whyman died in an aviation accident at the 2015 CarFest. Whyman rowed for the King's School Rowing Club. [1] In 1996 and 1997, he was the cox for The Boat Race-winning Cambridge team. [1] Whyman was a Royal Air Force trained pilot and a member of the Gnat ...
Young was born in Belgravia, London, [1] to Henry George Melvin Young, a British solicitor, and Fannie Rowan Young. [2] He was educated at Amesbury School in Hindhead, Westminster School class of 1933, Kent School in Kent, Connecticut class of 1932, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was part of the winning crew of the 1938 Boat Race.
Rather than ejecting, witnesses said the pilot "stayed on board to fly the plane away from the crowd", of which 3,000 were attending the airshow. The pilot, Florin Rotaru, was killed in the crash. [51] June 2 – Dan Buchanan, a hang glider pilot, was killed during the Gunfighter Skies Air and Space Celebration at Mountain Home Air Force Base. [52]
An asylum seeker who piloted an “unseaworthy” boat where four passengers drowned in the English Channel has been found guilty of manslaughter.
Neil Bowditch, 47, and seven-year-old Kacper Kacprzak were killed during the accident in the Republic of Ireland in May 2018. British pilot and child killed in crash in Ireland, inquest hears Skip ...
20 June – The British destroyer HMS Acorn fired four or five shots at the U.S. Navy submarine chaser USS SC-151 in the Strait of Otranto. All missed. [32] 13 July – British army officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon was wounded after being shot in the head by a fellow British soldier who had mistaken him for a German near Arras, France. As a ...
Ibrahima Bah, from Senegal, denies the manslaughter of four people who drowned in the Channel on December 14 2022.
For Those in Peril is a 1944 British war film produced by Ealing Studios that marked the directorial debut of Charles Crichton.The film was developed from a short story by Richard Hillary, an RAF pilot killed in action in January 1943.