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Date: | Tuesday 6 November 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | English Electric Canberra B. 6 (BS) |
Owner/operator: | 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WT371 |
MSN: | 71386 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Nicosia -
Cyprus
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire (EGXB) |
Destination airport: | RAF Nicosia, Cyprus |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:EE Canberra B.6, WT371, 139 (Jamaica) Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 6/11/56 - The pilot shut down the starboard engine after a suspected fire. The aircraft yawed during an asymmetric approach to Nicosia, Cyprus and crashed short of the runway. The three crew were killed. They were later named as Flying Officer Leslie Ian Collins, Flying Officer Kenneth Walter Banyard, and Flight Sergeant Morris Allen Rhodes - the latter was on secondment from 9 Squadron RAF Binbrook at the time of the accident
According to an eyewitness report (see link #6)
"I watched the accident of WT371 from the cockpit of my Hunter sitting on the readiness platform at Nicosia. It rolled to starboard. Had the other engine failed instead it would have taken out at least two of us strapped in our aircraft. The ORP was at right angles to the runway and we were positioned looking at the approach."
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.184 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 95)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/368:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424489 4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/35/S2848:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578628 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT 6.
https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/412939-raf-canberra-losses-during-suez.html 7.
http://web.archive.org/web/20140912055449/http://britains-smallwars.com:80/cyprus/Davidcarter/ROH.htm 8.
http://www.friendsandrelations.com/html/detail.php/id/3360/relations/morris_allen_rhodes.html 9.
http://www.friendsandrelations.com/html/detail.php/id/3148 10.
https://www.ipswichwarmemorial.co.uk/kenneth-walter-banyard/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Oct-2011 15:22 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
29-Jan-2012 15:37 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative] |
06-Mar-2012 09:36 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
21-Sep-2013 19:53 |
Canjock |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
22-Jan-2020 21:38 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
22-Jan-2020 21:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
22-Jan-2020 21:44 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |