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| Date: | Monday 11 July 1955 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers Varsity T.1 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | WJ904 |
| MSN: | 625 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
| Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 264 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 7,2 km N of Thorney Island RAF Station -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Thorney Island RAF Station |
| Thorney Island RAF Station |
The Varsity was engaged in a single engine training flight when the propeller on the working engine was accidently feathered. The aircraft crash-landed.
It was serving with RAF No.2 Air Navigation School.
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
The Vickers Varsity / Roger Lindsay and Geoff Cruickshank, 1987
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 July 1960 | WJ914 | Royal Air Force - RAF | 6 | 6,4 km SSW of Oakington RAF Station | |
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