Date:	Friday 19 April 1968
Time:	10:30
Type:	Avro Shackleton MR.2
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	WB833
MSN:
Year of manufacture:	1952
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Griffon 57
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Glenmanuilt Hill, Mull of Kintyre -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Ballykelly RAF Station (EGQB)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The Shackleton MR.2 prototype had taken off from Ballykelly on an anti-submarine exercise early in the morning . The area around Mull of Kintyre was shrouded in thick sea mist. The Shackleton climbed up through the mist and the aircraft struck rising ground near Garvalt cottage.

Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
The Avro Shackleton / as compiled by Chris Ashworth
VPI Book of Remembrance

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