Date:	Thursday 21 September 1950
Time:
Type:	Vickers Valetta C.1
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	VX499
MSN:	445
Year of manufacture:	1950
Engine model:	Bristol Hercules 230
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	13 km off Aden-Khormaksar RAF Station (ADE) -   Yemen
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Aden-Khormaksar RAF Station (ADE/ODAA)

Narrative:
The Valetta was practicing a single engine (asymmetric) overshoot at RAF Khormaksar when the remaining engine failed. The aircraft ditched off the coast.

Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
Last take-off : a record of RAF aircraft losses 1950 to 1953 / C. Cummings
David Garbett (E-mail, 10-3-2011)

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