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Date: | Friday 18 April 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Vickers Wellington T Mk X |
Owner/operator: | 2 ANS RAF |
Registration: | PG296 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Thorney Island, Emsworth, Hampshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington T.Mk.X PG296 2 ANS (Air Navigation School), RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 18/4/1952, in a landing accident at RAF Thorney Island, Emsworth, Hampshire. After feathering the port engine for asymmetric (single engine) flying training practice, the starboard engine failed completely. The pilot could not unfeather and restart the port engine, and the failed starboard engine could not be feathered either. Despite have no functioning engines, and a rapid loss of airspeed, leading to a stall, the pilot managed to make a successful wheels up belly landing at RAF Thorney Island
Despite the aircraft being wrecked (damaged beyond repair) there were no casualties to the crew on board.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.126 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.238
4. 2 ANS ORB (Operational Recrod Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/12/1955; National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 29/2299/2 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7163209 5.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html 6.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-619-wellington-x-raf-thorney-island Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Sep-2013 01:45 |
JINX |
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27-Apr-2015 19:36 |
Slizack |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport] |
18-Apr-2017 22:12 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
19-Nov-2018 22:00 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
04-Mar-2021 19:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
04-Mar-2021 20:31 |
Slizack |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
11-Mar-2021 23:46 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |