Date:	Monday 14 January 1946
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	CC CF RAF
Registration:	NR790
MSN:	6866
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Manorbier, Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Destination airport:

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide MSN.6866: Taken on charge as NR790 at 18 MU RAF Dumfries 16.3.45. To Coastal Command Communications Flight 7.6.45.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14.1.46 when the port engine failed at an altitude of approx. 100 feet agl (above ground level) shortly after take-off. The pilot - Flight Lieutenant J R Hutchinson - set the aircraft up for an emergency landing; then the starboard engine also failed, and the aircraft was forced to make an immediate 'engines out' landing in a field near RAF Manorbier, Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Not repaired; Struck off charge 14.2.46 as Cat. E(FA)

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft NA100-NZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1988)
2. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.28 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.31
4. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.93: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf
5. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p068.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Manorbier#History

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Mar-2019 02:31	Dr. John Smith	Added
13-Mar-2019 08:47	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
05-Nov-2019 22:44	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
31-May-2021 19:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Source, Narrative]
27-Jul-2023 20:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[Date, Source, Narrative]]
03-Nov-2023 22:38	Nepa	Updated [[[Date, Source, Narrative]]]