Buccaneer emergency landing video

I can’t see any images, but is this the aircraft that my old Wing Commander bellied in…W/C Dave Bolsover??

Cheers,
C6

Hi C6, no, W/C Dave Bolsover executed a perfect gear up landing after a total hyds failure in XW543 at St Mawgan in 1992.

I believe that Dave has a copy of the footage taken by one of the staff at St Mawgan, it is also featured in Graham Pitchfork’s excellent book.

I can’t see any images, but is this the aircraft that my old Wing Commander bellied in…W/C Dave Bolsover??

Cheers,
C6

Yes chaps, its Leeming, XV867 suffered a hydraulics failure in 1993, she was later cut up on site, with the nose section going to Ken Ward and the rest of it to Calvert’s of Thirsk.

867’s nose section can now be found at the Highland Aircraft Museum.

Certainly looks like leeming to me, and ive had the pleasure of flying out of there

Its Leeming… the arrangement of runways and aprons is way out for lossie… if you check on google earth the yellow chevrons on the taxiway that crosses the runway are quite visible…

Zeb

Didn’t something similar happen at Leeming shortly before the Buccaneer retired from service?

cheers john 🙂

Ben

Looks like it may be losseimouth, by the commentary and the video it is apparent that the port undercarriage collapsed, either not fully deployed or not locked down and couldn’t take the weight on touch down.

Regards,

John.