ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 247870
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| Date: | Monday 26 November 1951 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: | Avro Lincoln B Mk 2 |
| Owner/operator: | 100 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | SX939 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Over Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
| RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Avro Lincoln B.Mk.2 SX939, 100 Squadron, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 26/11/1951 over Mabelthrope, LIncolnshire during a sortie from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.
During a night bombing exercise, the aircraft stalled, and got into a spin in thick cloud, falling rapidly from 9,000 to 5,000 feet, then spinning in the opposite direction, before recovering from the spin to level flight at 2,000 feet.
Upon landing back at RAF Waddington, the fuselage was inspected and found to be so twisted and overstressed, as were the mainplanes and elevators, that it was written off as Cat.5(G/I) in December 1951, and relegated to a Ground Instructional Airframe at No.2 Radio School, RAF Yatesbury.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.122 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.200
4. 100 Sqaudron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry File AM/F.540) for November 1951: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 27/2447/34 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8421053
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Avro_Lincoln#1950s
6. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1951
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Feb-2021 23:39 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 16-Feb-2021 10:22 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |
| 17-Feb-2021 00:07 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
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