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| Date: | Sunday 27 December 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Short Sunderland GR.5 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | RN302 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Tsushima Island -
 Japan
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
In a time span of ten minutes both engine no. 4 and engine no.2 lost power. The crew could not maintain height and carried out an emergency landing. The flying boat sustained substantial damage and was scuttled.
Sources:
Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
Last take-off : a record of RAF aircraft losses 1950 to 1953 / C. Cummings
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