Date:	Tuesday 10 April 1951
Time:
Type:	Vickers Valetta C.1
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	VW833
MSN:	395
Year of manufacture:	1949
Engine model:	Bristol Hercules 230
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Zalingei -   Sudan
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Kano International Airport (KAN/DNKN)
Destination airport:	El Fasher Airport (ELF/HSFS)

Narrative:
The Valetta crew had to carry out a forced landing in a dry river bed as a result of fuel exhaustion. The aircraft was on a ferry flight.

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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