Date: | Sunday 27 December 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | Short Sunderland GR.5 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | RN302 |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | off Tsushima Island -
Japan
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:In a time span of ten minutes both engine no. 4 and engine no.2 lost power. The crew could not maintain height and carried out an emergency landing. The flying boat sustained substantial damage and was scuttled.
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
Last take-off : a record of RAF aircraft losses 1950 to 1953 / C. Cummings
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