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Date: | Wednesday 18 March 1987 |
Time: | 16:15 |
Type: | Westland Lynx AH1 |
Owner/operator: | British Army Air Corps (AAC) |
Registration: | XZ204 |
MSN: | 107/1 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Schallern/Erwitte -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Soest-Bad Sassendorf (EDLZ) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Six minutes after take off from Soest, West Germany on a post rectification test flight, the tail rotor gearbox failed due to lack of oil. The aircraft spiralled into the garden of a private house at Schallern and caught fire after a fence pierced the fuel tanks.
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20121123090555/http://www.scramble.nl:80/milbase.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20120117212329/http://www.schallern.de:80/feuerwehr/feuerwehr_einsaetze.php
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1987.htm
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Dec-2010 14:56 |
TB |
Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
31-Aug-2011 23:12 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
03-Sep-2011 01:22 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
17-Mar-2012 10:18 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
13-Apr-2012 11:23 |
TB |
Updated [Operator] |