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| Date: | Friday 19 April 1968 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: |  Avro Shackleton MR.2 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | WB833 |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Griffon 57 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Glenmanuilt Hill, Mull of Kintyre -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ballykelly RAF Station (EGQB) |
The Shackleton MR.2 prototype had taken off from Ballykelly on an anti-submarine exercise early in the morning . The area around Mull of Kintyre was shrouded in thick sea mist. The Shackleton climbed up through the mist and the aircraft struck rising ground near Garvalt cottage.
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
The Avro Shackleton / as compiled by Chris Ashworth
VPI Book of Remembrance
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