Date:	Sunday 14 October 1951
Time:
Type:	Short Sunderland GR.5
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	RN277
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	OT
Location:	Iwakuni NAS -   Japan
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	-
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
Blown ashore in typhoon. The flying boat was unserviceable at the time so it could not be flown to safety when the typhoon warning came.

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

photo (c) Phil Cossey; Iwakuni NAS; October 1951

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