JAVELIN AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO SEA Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.23 on the morning of the 18th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Javelin aircraft with a crew of two had crashed into the sea seven to twelve miles east of the Tyne.

The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate westerly wind and a slight sea. The tide was half ebb.

As the life-boat was making for the position, a message was received that a man had been picked up by a helicopter.

On reaching the area the life-boat found wreckage of the aircraft, but this was not picked up immediately, as it was clearly more important to search for the second member of the aircraft's crew. The wreckage was in fact later taken aboard the fishing vessel Cairngorm and landed at North Shields. Other fishing vessels joined in the search, and the life-boat picked up a rubber dinghy together with pieces of aircraft and a glove bearing the name of the airman rescued by the helicopter. Although an extensive search was carried out by aircraft, helicopters, fishing vessels and the lifeboat, no trace was found of the missing airman, and the search was finally called off at 9.30 in the evening. The life-boat reached her station at 11.20..