Date:	Wednesday 2 May 1951
Time:
Type:	Vickers Valetta C.1
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	VW156
MSN:	326
Year of manufacture:	1948
Engine model:	Bristol Hercules 230
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	3,2 km NNW of Fayid -   Egypt
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Fayid RAF Station
Destination airport:	Fayid RAF Station

Narrative:
The Valetta crashed during a parachute drop demonstration of a military container from 800 feet. The parachute deployed over the top of the port tail plane causing the aircraft to immediately bank and dive into the ground.

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
Roy Selwyn
David Garbett (E-mail, 10-3-2011)

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