At 16.59 hours on Thursday, 22nd October, 1987 a Harrier GR5 piloted by Lieutenant Commander Taylor Scott, took off from the test aerodrome of British Aerospace at Dunsfold in Surrey, on what should have been a routine test flight; but instead it became a mystery almost on par with Lightning XS894.

Scott had filed a flight plan showing that he would climb to 30,000 feet, then level out over Boscombe Down, to make some high-speed runs at that height to check out a few small faults, one being to ensure that the oxygen master warning light was functioning correctly, on the on board oxygen generating system.

The duration of the test flight was for approximately 50 minutes. The flight was the final British Aerospace test flight, before handing over the Harrier GR5 aircraft, to the Royal Air Force, for a new squadron at RAF Wittering. For test pilot Taylor Scott it was the final flight.

Just as he was getting airborne, Scott was instructed to change frequencies, so that military air traffic controllers at West Drayton and Farnborough could monitor his test flight. At this stage nothing unusual and it was a routine request for the military to monitor the test flight.

At 1706 hours test pilot Scott reported he was climbing rapidly to his flight ceiling over Boscombe Down; that was to be his last report. Meanwhile, military radar units tracked the Harrier Jet and they saw it level out at 30,000 feet over Boscombe Down; the ceiling in the flight plan to start the test runs, but for some unknown reason, Scott did not confirm that he was on the correct heading ... The rest of this story along with other interesting, chilling and thought provoking true stories can be found in the book Ghost Stations™ Mysteries

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Published by: L'AQUILA (ANZIO Group)       Price: £9.95 each

200 pages and around 53 Photographs/Illustrations

ISBN-13: 978-1-871448-08-5