Burham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.

On the 26 July 1998, the air ambulance, a Eurocopter AS355 Twin Squirrel, registration G-MASK,[4] crashed in good weather after colliding with power cables near Burham while returning to Rochester Airport following an aborted call to attend a road accident.

[4] All three crew – the pilot, Graham Budden, and two paramedics, Tony Richardson and Mark Darby – were killed as the helicopter burst into flames on impact.

On 19 February 2004, following a civil case brought by the pilot's widow to the High Court in Manchester, it was ruled that the crash was caused by mechanical failure not, as had been suggested, flying low for fun, and ordered compensation to be paid.

[6][7] A memorial to the crew is located at the Blue Bell Hill picnic site, close to the scene of the crash.