ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 145751
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Date: | Tuesday 18 April 1967 |
Time: | |
Type: | Hawker Hunter FGA.9 |
Owner/operator: | 54 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | XG273 |
MSN: | 41H/680073 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 4 miles south of Tobruk -
Libya
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF El Adem, Libya |
Destination airport: | RAF El Adem, Lybia |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Two Hunter FGA.9s of 54 Squadron, RAF (XG273 and XF446) collided four miles south of Tobruk, Libya. whilst both were on final approach To RAF El Adem. The pilot of XG273 (Flying Officer S.Creak) ejected safely. XF446 landed safely at El Adem, whilst XG273 crashed.
However, despite lading safely, XF446 was deemed as Cat.4 (Repairable). It was later downgraded to Cat.5 (scrap) on 18/10/1967, and sold to HSA Dunsfold on 5/6/1968. Rebuilt by HSA Dunsfold as a Hunter F.56A for the Indian Air Force. Test flown in "Class B" markings as G-9-277, before being delivered to India as 'A1010' on 23/9/1969.
Official RAF/MoD records list XF446 as Struck off Charge 28/2/1970 - the belated date being presumably a "tidying up" exercise. XG273 was struck off charge as Cat.5(scrap) on 19/04/1967, the day after it crashed, and after recovery of the wreckage to RAF El Adem.
Sources:
www.ukserials.com/losses-1967.htm www.ejection-history.org.uk/project/year_pages/1967.htm http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XG Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-May-2012 11:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
19-Sep-2012 14:19 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Nature] |
01-Feb-2013 15:32 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Narrative] |
19-Apr-2013 04:38 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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