Date:	Wednesday 25 June 1952
Time:
Type:	Avro Shackleton MR.1
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	VP261
MSN:
Year of manufacture:	1951
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Griffon 57
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 13
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	19 km off Berwick-upon-Tweed -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Scampton RAF Station (SQZ/EGXP)
Destination airport:	Scampton RAF Station (SQZ/EGXP)

Narrative:
The Shackleton was carrying out dummy attacks on British submarine HMS Sirdar, during 'Exercise Castanets' in the North Sea. It lost height in a turn, contacted the sea and crashed.

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
The Avro Shackleton / as compiled by Chris Ashworth
VPI Book of Remembrance

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