ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334897
Date: | Tuesday 26 April 1955 |
Time: | 00:15 |
Type: | Vickers Varsity T.1 |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | WF426 |
MSN: | 569 |
Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 264 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Onnaing -
France
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Illegal Flight |
Departure airport: | Thorney Island RAF Station |
Destination airport: | - |
Narrative:On April 25, 1955 about 19:00 local time, the Varsity plane was taken on an unauthorised flight by a mechanic from Thorney Island RAF Station. The airplane flew towards the London area, circling the city. All the time the airplane was being chased by another Vickers Varsity from Thorney Island. After three hours the chase plane lost sight of the stolen plane. The mechanic continued flying low over southern England and then across The Channel to France. Shortly after midnight the airplane crashed into a farmhouse at Onnaing, near Valenciennes in northern France. Four occupants of the house were killed, along with the pilot.
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
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