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| Date: | Sunday 14 October 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Short Sunderland GR.5 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | RN277 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Other |
| Location: | Iwakuni NAS -
 Japan
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
Blown ashore in typhoon. The flying boat was unserviceable at the time so it could not be flown to safety when the typhoon warning came.
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
Images:
photo (c) Phil Cossey; Iwakuni NAS; October 1951
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