the time of the accident was approximately 10:02 pm, about 5½ minutes after the plane had been cleared to descend from fl110 (11000 ft) to fl60 (6000 ft). flying at a shallow rate of descent, the caravelle first clipped trees near black down house, then broke through a large hedge and careened across a meadow where 65 sheep were killed outright and 23 more were fatally injured. the disintegrating plane continued on, destroying a garage and damaging parts of the roof of upper black down house.