Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 11 MAY 1947 |
| Type: | Avro 691 Lancastrian 1 |
| Operator: | Skyways |
| Registration: | G-AGLF |
| C/n / msn: | 1172 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 4 Rolls Royce Merlin |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | landing ground H3 (Iraq) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Crashed while landing at a pipeline station in the desert between Cairo and Busreh.
Sources:
» The Civil Aircraft Registers of Great Britain
» WAAS
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
