Date:	Friday 17 August 1979
Time:
Type:	English Electric Lightning F3
Owner/operator:	11 Sqn RAF
Registration:	XP737
MSN:	95165
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Irish Sea off Anglesey -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Valley, Anglsey
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Crashed into the Irish Sea off Valley, Anglesey at Map Reference SH27SE, Grid Reference SH2916173970, after the pilot - Flying Officer R. T. KnowIes - ejected due to a jammed undercarriage. XP737 was inbound to Valley for the open day on 18-8-1979.

Per eyewitness report: "he lightning in question was arriving for the Valley Airshow (to be held the following day) and I recall seeing it doing a number of flybys over the Control Tower with the port u/c leg noticeably not fully down, also executing wing 'waggles' to try and get it to the fully down and locked position. Obviously in the end a decision was made to head it out into the Irish Sea and eject."

1. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1979.htm]
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_English_Electric_Lightning#1970s
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20160316093553/[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.lightning.org.uk/histf3.htm]l
4. http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/xp737l.html
5. http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/515868/details/BAC+LIGHTNING+F.3+XP737/
6. http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1152207/
7. Halley, J, 2001, Royal Air force Aircraft XA100 - XZ999, pg72
8. http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1848848854

XP737 (nearest camera) in 1979, refuelling from Victor tanker XH671 XP737 as "737" of 226 OCU at RAF Lakenheath on 18 Aug 1973l

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Mar-2012 16:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
08-Apr-2013 17:09	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location]
05-Jun-2013 17:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Embed code]
19-Jun-2013 03:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative]
07-Nov-2017 09:03	Aerossurance	Updated [Location]