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Date: | Wednesday 15 March 1950 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Vickers Wellington T Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 201 AFS RAF |
Registration: | PG419 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Stapleford, 3.5 miles south of RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington T.Mk.X PG419, 201 AFS (Advanced Flying School), RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 15 March 1950. The crew was performing a night BAT (Beam Approach Training) sortie. On final approach in low visibility, the aircraft crashed in a field near Stapleford, North Kesteven, 3.5 miles short of the runway threshold. There were no casualties.
Stapleford is a village and civil parish in North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, and about 6 miles (10 km) north-east from the town of Newark-on-Trent and 12 miles (19 km) south-west from the city of Lincoln, at approximate coordinates 53.109119°N 0.683137°W
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.90 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.39
4.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-619-wellington-x-raf-swinderby-0 5.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1950 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapleford,_Lincolnshire Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Sep-2013 02:07 |
JINX |
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27-Apr-2015 19:43 |
Slizack |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
23-Apr-2017 22:43 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Dec-2020 17:21 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
15-Dec-2020 17:48 |
Slizack |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
15-Dec-2020 17:50 |
Glog |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator] |