Date:	Monday 23 May 1949
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Lancaster B Mk VII
Owner/operator:	EAAS RAF
Registration:	NX789
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Baginton, (Coventry Airport), Coventry, Warwickshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Manby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	Baginton, (Coventry Airport), Coventry, Warwickshire

Narrative:
Avro Lancaster NX789 (Empire Air Armament School): Written off (destroyed) 23/05/1949.
The starboard outer engine caught fire on final approach to Baginton, (Coventry Airport), Coventry, Warwickshire. The engine was feathered, and the Flight Engineer discharged the fire extinguishers. Aircraft landed safely (did not crash) but fire was not contained, and the complete airframe was burnt out. No reported fatalities or casualties, all crew evacuated from aircraft safely.

A subsequent investigation discovered that the cause of the fire was a fuel leak between a fuel pump outlet and a pipe union.

1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.88. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings - A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat losses 1946-1949 by Colin Cummings p.500
3. The Lancaster File (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p 114)
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/29/W2448: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578294
5. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1946-49.htm
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_College_of_Air_Warfare
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Manby
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Airport

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Dec-2019 14:33	Dr. John Smith	Added
08-Dec-2019 17:26	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]
20-May-2023 21:10	Nepa	Updated [[Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]]