ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 55314
Last updated: 18 May 2013
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| Date: | 23-MAY-1973 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Vulcan B.2 |
| Operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | XJ781 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Shiraz, OISS -
 Iran
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Shiraz, Iran |
The port undercarriage failed to lower. The aircraft was landed on a foam strip at Shiraz but veered off the runway into a gully, tearing off the starboard and nose undercarriage legs.
Salvage was impracticable. Consequently, a team was despatched (from Akrotiri I assume) with orders to cut off the last six feet of each wing. Again, I feel fairly sure that the photos I saw showed the aircraft after this rather drastic action. I'm afraid I cannot remember whether specific equipment items were also retrieved during this operation.
Sources:
Flight International, 2 May 1980
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft XA100 - XZ999, published 2001
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1203376/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread182835/pg1
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/111797-did-you-fly-vulcan-merged-37.html
http://www.bbcattic.org/ww2peopleswar/user/73/u1540773.shtml
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=13016XJ781 is the nearest aircraft in the following picture, taken at RAF Tengah, Singapore in 1969: \r\n\r\n
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Dec-2008 11:03 | harro | Updated |
| 22-Aug-2011 22:24 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Mar-2012 07:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-May-2012 18:47 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Embed code] |
| 11-Apr-2013 13:50 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
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