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| Date: | Wednesday 15 September 1954 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Short Sunderland MR.5 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | PP122 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The flying boat hit a submerged rock on landing causing a rupture in the hull.
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
The Sunderland Flying-boat Queen / By John Evans, 1993
Images:
photo (c) Shaun Marsh; St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands; 20 September 1954
photo (c) Julia Le Pelley; St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands; 26 September 1954
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