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Date: | Monday 2 July 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 202 AFS RAF |
Registration: | WA298 |
MSN: | EEP/42... |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Irish Sea nr Ynys Llanddwyn, 12 miles S of RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales (VLY/EGOV) |
Destination airport: | RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales (VLY/EGOV) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 WA298, 202 AFS RAF: delivered 17/1/1951. Written off 2/7/1951, Crashed into sea on ILS (Instrument Landing System) let down approach to RAF Valley, Anglesey. Aircraft came down in the Irish Sea, near Ynys Llanddwyn (Llanddwyn Island), approximately twelve miles south of RAF Valley at Map Reference SH36SE, Grid Reference SH3950362631. The cause of the accident was later determined to be the inadvertent inflation of the dinghy inside the cockpit or possibly other instrument failure. The pilot, an Iranian National, was killed.
Crew of Vampire WA298:
Captain Mohammed SIRANG, Imperial Iranian Air Force (pilot, aged 27) - killed 2/7/1951
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.115 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.151
4. 202 AFS ORB (Operational Record Boook)(Air Mininstry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/3/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2144 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101854 5. Roy Sloan, Anglesey Air Accidents during the 20th Century (Llygad Gwalch Cyf,2002, ISBN: 9780863816772)
6.
https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/240171/details/de-havilland-vampire-fb5-wa298 7.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt 8.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynys_Llanddwyn Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-May-2008 15:23 |
JINX |
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08-Jun-2008 15:26 |
JINX |
Updated |
16-May-2015 17:10 |
Xindel |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
01-Feb-2021 22:22 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
02-Feb-2021 11:45 |
Xindel |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator] |
05-Feb-2021 17:23 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
01-Mar-2021 01:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
11-Jul-2023 20:55 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Source]] |