Not a flying boat but a Wellington
Vickers Wellington (Photo : Wikipedia) Thanks to my cousin, John Turner, who contacted the archivist at Davidstow Airfield museum , I can now confirm that it was not flying boat but a Wellington crash that my mother witnessed. Even better, this crash occurred with no loss of life although the crew were quite shaken up. Well wouldn't you be? From the crash site, one can see the control tower at Davidstow airfield jut below the horizon, far left My 89 year old mother is writing her memoirs and this was one of the mysteries in her life that we wanted to clear up. This is how she relates the tale of her sighting and also how we resolved this long-standing mystery. "While we were staying in Cornwall during the war, I witnessed an air crash. "This must have happened while we were staying at Otterham Mill, near Boscastle with Mrs Hocking. I suppose it was a sort of private evacuation and we arrived at Otterham station with our bikes on the train. My father ...