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| Date: | Wednesday 16 December 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers Valetta C.2 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | VX575 |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1950 |
| Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 230 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 8 km NNW of Malta-Luqa Airport (MLA) -
 Malta
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Malta-Luqa Airport (MLA/LMML) |
| Malta-Luqa Airport (MLA/LMML) |
Vickers Valetta VX575 departed Malta-Luqa Airport on a test flight when suddenly at a height of about 50 feet the no. 2 propeller oversped. The pilot attempted to feather the prop, but these attempts failed. He tried to return to the airport, but the aircraft could not maintain height. A forced belly landing was carried out outside the airport. The airplane caught fire.
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
UK Serials
Aviation in Malta
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