ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144712
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| Date: | Tuesday 26 June 1962 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hawker Hunter FGA Mk 9 |
| Owner/operator: | 8 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | XE600 |
| MSN: | 41H/679958 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Khormaksar Ranges, Aden -
 Yemen
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Khormaksar, Aden (ADE/OYAA) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The pilot of XE600 (Flying Officer Martin Webborn) was No.2 on an R/P cine, live air to ground firing exercise at Khormaksar Range. No.1 completed firing first and returned home to base, the pilot of XE600 received two low warnings and was sent home by the Range Safety Officer.
Despite this, he was given permission to make a low pass to check his height calibration but proceeded to ‘beat up’ the range control office.
He proceeded to fly the aircraft close to the RSO’s hut at a height of 5 feet, with undercarriage and flaps fully extended, and at a speed of about 150 knots. When he was level with the hut, he opened the throttle and climbed steeply away. He encountered a dust cloud from his own aircraft wash and in an attempt to pull up the aircraft stalled at 150 feet. He did not eject and was killed when the aircraft crashed
Presumably the 'beat up' on the Range Safety Officer was in a fit of pique and this configuration selected to produce greatest disturbance of surface sand in giving discomfort to him. The engine would have been throttled well back during the reduction in height and speed. The slow engine acceleration below 4,500 rpm and the configuration selected produced control difficulties which this inexperienced pilot could not cope with.
A Board of Inquiry concluded that F/O Webborn was trying to make things uncomfortable for the Range Safety Officer by stirring up the sand and that: “Such flagrant indiscipline usually has some history: it did”
Sources:
1. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1962.htm
2. http://radfanhunters.co.uk/BillO.htm
3. http://www.radfanhunters.co.uk/Accidents.htm
4. http://www.radfanhunters.co.uk/8-1962.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Mar-2012 09:29 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 19-Aug-2012 13:11 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 19-Oct-2013 00:34 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
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