Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 14 MAY 1953 |
| Type: | Avro Shackleton MR.2 |
| Operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | WL749 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | 1953 |
| Engines: | 4 Rolls-Royce Griffon 57 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Belfast-Aldergrove RAF Station (BFS) (United Kingdom) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Belfast-Aldergrove RAF Station (BFS/EGAA), United Kingdom |
Avro Shackleton WL749 landed short of the runway at Aldergrove.The port undercarriage collapsed causing the aircraft to slew and hit the runway controller's caravan.
Sources:
» 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
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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.
