The Inventor of Stereo

Chapter 10

The loss of Halifax V9977

Secrecy and speculation

The circumstances surrounding the tragic loss of Halifax V9977 and the 11 crew onboard have never been fully documented in an open publication. Needless to say, in time of war (and bearing in mind the sensitive nature of the work being carried out during the flight), much of the detail of the crash was hidden for years under a blanket of total secrecy. Some forty years after the crash, an investigation was carried out by engineers at the Radar Research Establishment at Malvern, but the document was intended as an internal publication and had been produced ostensibly to correct details which had originated from the crash investigation immediately after the flight, and which had subsequently ...