ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 156206
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Date: | Friday 9 December 1983 |
Time: | |
Type: | English Electric Lightning T Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 5 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | XS457 |
MSN: | 95017 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire (EGXB) |
Destination airport: | RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire (EGXB) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Landed heavily and swung off the wet runway at Binbrook, Lincolnshire after a main undercarriage leg collapsed. Put into store and never flew again. In 1986-88 XS457 was parked outside at Binbrook as a decoy airframe coded "FD5"
Scrapped at Binbroook, but the cockpit was preserved at Grimsby in 1988
Sources:
1.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1983.htm 2.
http://www.binbrook.demon.co.uk/html/XS457.html 3.
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?85871-E-E-Lightning-XS457 4.
http://www.binbrook.demon.co.uk/html/XS457_saved.html 5.
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivors.php 6. picture of accident:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1333972/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jun-2013 21:22 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
28-Feb-2014 19:30 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
14-Nov-2018 15:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
25-Jan-2021 21:34 |
Anon. |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator] |
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