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| Date: | Tuesday 10 April 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers Valetta C.1 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | VW833 |
| MSN: | 395 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1949 |
| Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 230 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Zalingei -
 Sudan
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kano International Airport (KAN/DNKN) |
| El Fasher Airport (ELF/HSFS) |
The Valetta crew had to carry out a forced landing in a dry river bed as a result of fuel exhaustion. The aircraft was on a ferry flight.
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
David Garbett (E-mail, 10-3-2011)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 May 1955 | VW834 | Royal Air Force - RAF | 0 | Fayid RAF Station |  |
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