Date:	Friday 11 December 1953
Time:	17:30
Type:	Avro Shackleton MR.2
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	WL746
MSN:
Year of manufacture:	1953
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Griffon 57
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	off Argyll -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The aircraft crashed into the sea off the coast of Argyll, Scotland while on an anti-submarine exercise.

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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