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| Date: | Wednesday 25 June 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Shackleton MR.1 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | VP261 |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1951 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Griffon 57 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 13 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 19 km off Berwick-upon-Tweed -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Scampton RAF Station (SQZ/EGXP) |
| Scampton RAF Station (SQZ/EGXP) |
The Shackleton was carrying out dummy attacks on British submarine HMS Sirdar, during 'Exercise Castanets' in the North Sea. It lost height in a turn, contacted the sea and crashed.
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
The Avro Shackleton / as compiled by Chris Ashworth
VPI Book of Remembrance
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