Demonstration

The crew was performing a demo flight to potential clients. Upon landing in Wau Airport, on a relative steep runway, the aircraft failed to stop properly. The aircraft eventually overran and came to rest into a ditch. All five crew members were slightly injured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The aircraft was performing a demo flight from RAF Fairford with a crew of six and two British journalists. Enroute, while cruising in marginal weather conditions, the aircraft hit the slope of a hill located 8 miles east of Leek. The aircraft was destroyed and all 8 occupants were killed.
Crew (47th Squadron):
S/Lr Donald Don McIntyre, pilot,
F/Lt Ernest Smith, navigator,
W/O Gordon Victor Chapman, bomb aimer,
W/O Richard Sydney Kearns, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Kenneth Charles Pettit, wireless operator,
Sgt William Thomas Sherry, glider pilot.
Passengers:
David William Savill,
Joseph John Reardon.
Source:
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/peakdistrict/peakdistrictrt922.htm

The aircraft was carrying five crew members (US and Brazilian Officers) who were completing a demonstration flight in a simulation of bombing attack. In flight, for unknown reason, the aircraft went out of control and crashed 7 miles west of Rio de Janeiro. All five occupants were killed.

The crew was performing a demo flight at San Fernando Airport. While flying in the vicinity of the airfield, the twin engine aircraft went out of control and crashed in a field, killing both occupants.

The crew was engaged in a demonstration flight at RAF Leconfield and was performing an exercise consisting to prove the aircraft was able to fly with only one engine operative. While cruising at low height in the vicinity of the airbase, the crew shut down three engines and continued to fly on one engine only when the aircraft lost height, stalled and crashed in a field located near the airfield. While all six crew members were rescued, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

On 15th July 1944 two aircraft from 290 Squadron Royal Air Force, based at Newtownards, were entertaining a crowd of spectators at Warrenpoint during a Civil Defence Demonstration when disaster struck. The aircraft involved were a Miles Martinet TT1 (Number MS626), which was used by the Royal Air Force specifically for the role of towing targets and an Airspeed Oxford (Number LX 598) which was a twin engined trainer aircraft. There were misty conditions while the display was taking place and then, while one aircraft was climbing over the town the second aircraft approached from the direction of Carlingford Lough. It appears that the pilots saw each other at the last minute and both attempted to take evasive action with one climbing and the other diving however this was not to be as the tail sections struck each other and as an explosion occurred in the sky pieces of both aircraft rained down. Some sections of wreckage from the Martinet landed in the Church Street and Queen Street area of the town however most crashed at Duke Street and Church Street, where the cockpit was found with the dead crew inside. The Airspeed Oxford fell into Carlingford Lough near to the swimming baths and the bodies of the 3 Pilots who were killed were recovered and taken initially to the Charlotte Street Morgue then on to the Mortuary at Daisyhill Hospital in Newry.
Crew (290th Squadron):
W/O Lucien Arthur William Joseph Eccles, pilot,
F/S Dennis Myers, pilot,
Sgt Peter Sturdy, pilot.
Crew of the Miles Martinet:
W/O Albert Gordon Gibb, pilot.
Sgt George William Mosey, air gunner.
Source: http://ww2ni.webs.com/countydownpart4.htm

The crew was performing a demo flight in the vicinity of the Clearview Airfield. In flight, the pilot encountered unknown technical problems and attempted to make an emergency belly landing. On touchdown in a pasture, the aircraft skidded for several yards before coming to rest. While all 22 occupants were uninjured, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The pilot, sole on board, was performing a demo flight to the Blackburn Aircraft facilities based at Brough Airport. While completing a low pass, the twin engine aircraft clipped the roof of a hangar, stalled and crashed into the Humber River. The pilot was killed.
Crew:
P/O James Francis Haley.

The crew was engaged in a series of demo flights in the US. En route from Phoenix to Abilene, the left engine failed and later fell off. The pilot attempted an emergency landing when the airplane crash landed in a desert area located between Rodeo and Lordsburg, bursting into flames. A crew was killed and three others were slightly injured. The airplane was destroyed by a post crash fire.
Crew:
S/L N. K. Lloyd, pilot,
F/Lt P. A. Kimpton, navigator, †
Cpl J. R. Berth-Jones, rigger,
AC1 R. West, fitter.

The pilot (a FAB Officer) and seven passengers took place in this seaplane built in 1930 and used by the Brazilian Air Force. While performing a demonstration flight, the airplane went out of control and crashed, killing all eight occupants. It appears that the pilot was not unauthorized to perform the flight.