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| Date: | Friday 20 September 1957 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Auster AOP.9 |
| Owner/operator: | 656 Sqn AAC |
| Registration: | WZ706 |
| MSN: | B5/10/32 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Paddy Field, 100 miles inside Thailand -
 Thailand
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kroh, Malaya |
Substantially damaged 20/9/1957 when force-landed onto a track 100 miles inside Thailand. Cause was loss of oil pressure, due to loose union fitting, causing engine failure. Recovered by the AAC 656 Squadron working party, and transported back to Noble Field, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya as an under slung load (underneath a Sycamore helicopter).
Struck off charge as Cat.5(gi) and became 7851M. Civil registered as G-BURR on 28/9/1992
Sources:
http://www.raf-butterworth-penang-association.co.uk/PDF/Issue25Christmas2009.pdf
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?88885-Auster-WZ706-G-BURR
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.656squadron.org/Recollections/WZ706second.html]
http://www.eggesfordairfield.co.uk/Aircraft%20%20Restoration.htm
http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 3 January 1958 | WZ707 | 656 Sqn AAC | 0 | nr Taiping Perak |  |
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