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Date: | Friday 8 July 1949 |
Time: | day |
Type: | North American AT-16 Harvard T.2B |
Owner/operator: | HMS Falcon /RNAS Hal Far SF FAA RN |
Registration: | EZ288 |
MSN: | 88-16072 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | HMS Falcon /RNAS Hal Far -
Malta
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | HMS Falcon, RNAS Hal Far, Malta |
Destination airport: | HMS Falcon, RNAS Hal Far, Malta |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Ex-USAAF 42-84291 (MSN 88-16072) to RAF as Harvard III EZ288. No recorded RAF use. Transferred to Fleet Air Arm. To "C" Flight, 799 Squadron, HMS Siskin, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire April 1946. To RNARY Donibristle in January 1949 for crating prior to shipping overseas. Shipped to Malta 13 May 1949. To Station Flight, HMS Falcon, RNAS Hal Far May 1949.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crash landed at HMS Falcon, RNAS Hal Far, Malta 8 July 1949. At the end of an instrument flying training sortie to and from Hal Far, aircraft overturned during violent braking on landing. Aircraft 'nosed over', tail rose, propeller struck the runway. Aircraft was written off as "damaged beyond repair", but the pilot - Lieutenant Commander J R Home RN - was uninjured.
Airframe formally Struck Off Charge as Cat.ZZ on 8 July 1949.
Sources:
1. Fleet Air Arm Fixed Wing Aircraft Since 1946 (Ray Sturtivant, Lee Howard & Mick Burrow, Air Britain, 2004
2. The Harvard File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 1988 p.72)
3. Ray Sturtivant & T. Ballance (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-223-8.
4.
http://www.aviationinmalta.com/MilitaryAviation/AccidentsMilitary/19401949/tabid/650/language/en-US/Default.aspx Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-May-2021 22:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
17-Jun-2021 21:08 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Operator] |