Date:	Thursday 3 October 1957
Time:	19:30 UTC
Type:	English Electric Canberra B Mk 6
Owner/operator:	139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WJ769
MSN:	71277
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF Idris, Tripoli -   Libya
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Idris, Tripoli, Libya
Destination airport:	RAF Idris, Tripoli, Libya
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Written off 01/10/1957: The pilot made a wheels-up landing at the side of the duty runway at RAF Idris, Tripoli, Libya after the port engine caught fire on take off. The navigator (Flying Officer A. S. Brown) and observer had ejected, but the pilot (Flight Lieutenant J F W Pembridge) stayed with the aircraft. No casualties were reported.

Struck off charge 04/11/1957 as Cat,5(G/I) for Ground instructional use; the forward fuselage was transported back to the UK to become instructional airframe to 7546M at RAF Binbrook.

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 XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 29)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.257
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/37/S2898: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578678
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
6. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194235/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1957.htm#oct
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Castel_Benito

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Jun-2008 09:48	JINX	Added
17-Jun-2008 10:38	JINX	Updated
19-Jan-2010 10:09	Anon.	Updated [Source, Narrative]
24-Feb-2011 14:59	harro	Updated [Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Mar-2012 09:39	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
09-Apr-2013 03:44	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Jun-2013 13:36	gus	Updated [Time]
07-Dec-2020 00:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]