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Date: | Monday 23 May 1949 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Avro Lancaster B Mk VII |
Owner/operator: | EAAS RAF |
Registration: | NX789 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Baginton, (Coventry Airport), Coventry, Warwickshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Manby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | Baginton, (Coventry Airport), Coventry, Warwickshire |
Narrative:Avro Lancaster NX789 (Empire Air Armament School): Written off (destroyed) 23/05/1949.
The starboard outer engine caught fire on final approach to Baginton, (Coventry Airport), Coventry, Warwickshire. The engine was feathered, and the Flight Engineer discharged the fire extinguishers. Aircraft landed safely (did not crash) but fire was not contained, and the complete airframe was burnt out. No reported fatalities or casualties, all crew evacuated from aircraft safely.
A subsequent investigation discovered that the cause of the fire was a fuel leak between a fuel pump outlet and a pipe union.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.88. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings - A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat losses 1946-1949 by Colin Cummings p.500
3. The Lancaster File (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p 114)
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/29/W2448:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578294 5.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1946-49.htm 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_College_of_Air_Warfare 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Manby 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Airport Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Dec-2019 14:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
08-Dec-2019 17:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
20-May-2023 21:10 |
Nepa |
Updated |