Gear-up landing Incident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito T Mk III HJ970,
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Date:Monday 28 November 1955
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic MOSQ model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito T Mk III
Owner/operator:233 OCU RAF
Registration: HJ970
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:RAF stn Filton, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: Landing
Nature:Training
Departure airport:RAF Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
Destination airport:RAF Filton, Gloucestershire
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
Mosquito HJ970: Took off for training flight from RAF Pembrey. 28/11/1955
Undercarriage leg jammed up and aircraft belly landed at RAF Filton.
Crew:
S/Ldr (133.263) John Alfred William LONG AFC (pilot) RAF - Ok.
???? (u/t pilot) RAF - Ok

Sources:

1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2. http://www.mossie.org/production/results.php?series=HJ&returnsperpage=All&mode
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings.
4. Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes since the End of World War II By Peter Forrester


Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
07-Feb-2010 21:21 NePa Added
07-Sep-2012 01:33 Nepa Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
16-Sep-2014 09:06 Next Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative]
23-Jul-2015 19:23 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
31-Jan-2019 18:14 Nepa Updated [Narrative, Operator]
20-Oct-2019 20:05 Dr. John Smith Updated [Date, Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
27-Oct-2019 21:43 Nepa Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]
26-Nov-2019 16:56 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]
06-Jun-2020 15:09 Dr. John Smith Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
25-Dec-2020 15:55 Nepa Updated [Location, Phase, Narrative, Operator]
02-Aug-2021 16:18 Anon. Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, Operator]
27-Nov-2021 09:42 Nepa Updated [Narrative, Operator]

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