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| Date: | Wednesday 2 May 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers Valetta C.1 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | VW156 |
| MSN: | 326 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
| Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 230 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 3,2 km NNW of Fayid -
 Egypt
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Fayid RAF Station |
| Fayid RAF Station |
The Valetta crashed during a parachute drop demonstration of a military container from 800 feet. The parachute deployed over the top of the port tail plane causing the aircraft to immediately bank and dive into the ground.
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
Roy Selwyn
David Garbett (E-mail, 10-3-2011)
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