Date:	Monday 18 November 1946
Time:	day
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk XIV
Owner/operator:	18 MU RAF
Registration:	PF940
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Dumfries, Dumfries-shire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Pushback / towing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dumfries, Dumfries-shire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington Mk. XIV, 18 MU RAF Dumfries: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 18-11-1946 at RAF Dumfries. The aircraft was being towed across the airfield at RAF Dumfries, when the handling crew towed the aircraft over a Leight Light test pit. The weight of the Wellington broke through the pit cover, and the undercarriage dropped into the test pit. Aircraft sustained sufficient damage to render it as "damaged beyond repair", and Wellington PF940 was struck off charge

1. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
2. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.103: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
3. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
4. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.246
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Dumfries

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Sep-2013 18:12	JINX	Added
29-Apr-2014 19:04	TB	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]
27-Apr-2017 19:25	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Dec-2017 19:24	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
25-May-2023 16:08	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[Aircraft type, Operator]]