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Date: | Friday 7 December 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 101 FRS RAF |
Registration: | NA843 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Blyton, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Blyton, Lincolnshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington T.Mk.X NA843, 101 FRS, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 7/12/1951. The aircraft was attempting to overshoot from an approach to RAF Blyton, 5 miles North East of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, but lost height, and made a wheels-up belly landing on the grass at RAF Blyton.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.123 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft NA100-NZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.205
4. 101 FRS ORB (Operations Record Book) (Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to
31/1/1952: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2319/1 at
hhttps://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7163235 5.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1951 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Blyton 7.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/blyton-history Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Feb-2021 19:37 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
17-Feb-2021 20:42 |
Lelek |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
20-Feb-2021 02:53 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |