| Estado: | |
| Fecha: | jueves 21 septiembre 1950 |
| Tipo: | Vickers Valetta C.1 |
| Operador: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registración: | VX499 |
| Numéro de série: | 445 |
| Año de Construcción: | 1950 |
| Motores: | 2 Bristol Hercules 230 |
| Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 0 / Ocupantes: 4 |
| Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 0 / Ocupantes: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalidades: 0 / Ocupantes: 4 |
| Daños en la Aeronave: | Anulado |
| Consecuencias: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Ubicación: | 13 km (8.1 milles) de la costa de Aden-Khormaksar RAF Station (ADE) ( Yemen)
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| Fase: | Desconocido (UNK) |
| Naturaleza: | Militar |
| Aeropuerto de Salida: | ? |
| Aden-Khormaksar RAF Station (ADE/ODAA), Yemen |
The Valetta was practicing a single engine (asymmetric) overshoot at RAF Khormaksar when the remaining engine failed. The aircraft ditched off the coast.
Fuentes:
» Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley» Last take-off : a record of RAF aircraft losses 1950 to 1953 / C. Cummings
» David Garbett (E-mail, 10-3-2011)
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