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Date: | Friday 12 July 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Avro Anson C Mk 21 |
Owner/operator: | Metropolitan CS RAF |
Registration: | VS566 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Hendon, Middlesex, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Northolt, South Ruislip, Middlesex |
Destination airport: | RAF Hendon, Middlesex |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Avro Anson C.21 VS566, "CB-X" of the Metropolitan Communications Squadron, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 12/7/1957. Skidded off the end of the runway on landing at RAF Hendon, London, and hit an obstruction. Aircraft badly damaged, and not repaired.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.191 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 81)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.255
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 6. Damaged Anson C.21 VS566 at Hendon July 1957:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1499238 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VS Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Aug-2020 22:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
08-Aug-2020 20:03 |
Yarbi |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |