Date: | Thursday 26 March 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers Varisty T.1 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | WJ938 |
MSN: | |
Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 264 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Nicosia Airport (NIC) -
Cyprus
|
Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Nicosia Airport (NIC/LCNC) |
Narrative:During taxiing the nosewheel steering failed. The pilot informed ATC and continued to taxy using differential braking. He attempted a double bend, but then the brakes failed. The Varsity left the taxiway and ran into some parked fuel tankers.
It was serving with RAF Advanced Flying School.
Sources:
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
The Vickers Varsity / Roger Lindsay and Geoff Cruickshank, 1987
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