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Date: | Monday 31 May 1965 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen FAW.1 |
Owner/operator: | 766 NAS FAA RN |
Registration: | XN648 |
MSN: | 10080 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Little Kneeset one mile SSW of Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor, Devon -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RNAS Yeovilton (YEO/EGVL) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Sea Vixen FAW.1 XN648 (VL-716) of 766 NAS, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm was written off 31/5/1965: Entered a spin at 28,000 feet during a fighter tactics sortie and crashed near Little Kneeset, one mile SSW of Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor, Devon. The pilot could not recover the aircraft and both crew - Sub/Lt. Cotterill and Sub/Lt. Kenward - ejected safely. The aircraft made a very large crater into an area of boggy ground, and the impact crater can still be seen (as per the picture below)
Sources:
1.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1965.htm 2.
http://www.davebellamy.co.uk/index.php?MF=Views/Photo.php?Ref=26127981314225 3. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.seavixen.org/history/seavixen-recovery-maintenance/xn648-accident-dartmoor]
4.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120622210245/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/SeaVixen.htm 5. XN648 before it crashed: [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/seavixenpics/xn648.jpg]
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-Sep-2013 19:00 |
Dr.John Smith |
Added |
16-Sep-2013 19:05 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Narrative] |
28-Feb-2014 17:04 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
19-Jun-2015 06:02 |
Dave Bellamy |
Updated [Embed code] |
28-Dec-2019 21:34 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |