Date:	Thursday 2 March 1961
Time:
Type:	Handley Page Victor B.1
Owner/operator:	Handley Page Aircraft
Registration:	XA917
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Radlett, Hertfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Radlett, Hertfordshire
Destination airport:	Radlett, Hertfordshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Whilst engaged in "X-Band" Radar Trials, XA917 landed in the undershoot area at Radlett, Hertfordshire, damaging the nose wheels. It ran onto the runway, but with no steering, XA917 veered off onto the grass, where the nose undercarriage collapsed, causing extensive damage to the fuselage. To Ground Instructional Airframe 7827M at RAF Wittering then RAF Wyton then RAF Marham. WFU September 1993 after the Victors of 55 Squadron disbanded, cockpit sold to private collector Sept/Oct 1993

1. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1961.htm
2. https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-234875.html
3. http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/flighthistorical/victor-xa917-31945.aspx
4. http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/victor/survivors.php
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20160303210250/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Victor.htm
6. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.demobbed.org.uk/image_view.php?a=14813&s=xa917.jpg]
7. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?77252-Handley-Page-Victor-cockpit
8. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/victorpics/xa917.jpg]

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Oct-2013 19:28	Dr. John Smith	Added
17-Oct-2013 19:36	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
04-Jan-2017 18:38	TB	Updated [Operator, Embed code, Narrative]
07-Mar-2018 13:08	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]