Another list of accidents where information is required by my friend in South Africa. Help would be much appreciated.
25 MAY 1965: AVRO VULCAN (RAF SCAMPTON, UK)
The wing of a Vulcan hit the ground after running out of fuel at a US Air Show whilst landing and then skidded into the Air Traffic Traffic Control. XM576.
Detail required. Can’t find confirmation that it actually occurred!
VICTOR CRASH????
Internet extract without any substantiation! True or False?
B(I)8 & Gainsey Ref the 543 Victor, 543 were being presented with their Colours, by, I believe, Princess Anne. Anyway they had a parade on the lazy, where also were lined up their Victors. The culmination of this was to be a rapid start and scramble of one of the said a/c. followed by a flypast. Sod’s law came into play and the prime went **** up, the crew, minus I think the Nav Rad, who was to get some pics for the Captain, ran to the standby, started and taxied . He did a wonderful take off (min fuel) airborne well before the intersection and pulled into a tight r.h climbing turn, intending to line up on 27 for a max rate climb, but he was unable to pull onto the centreline due to speed & not letting out far enough so he called going around for another try. He came over us going like the proverbial bat out of hell, and in at least 50 to 60 deg bank, got to the far side of the airfield and the tailplane departed, the rest is history, apart from the fact that I got hauled in to do the first night’s guard at the crash site. Incidently, The Daily Mirror was the only paper to get a photo of the take off and initial climbing turn, and it headlined it’s next day’s edition “Death of a Giant” with said pic on the front page
?? SEPTEMBER 1975: HAWKER HARRIER (YEOVILTON, UK)
Yeovilton Navy Day Sep 1975 was marred by an unfortunate incident when the pilot of the Harrier was killed when the ejection seat fired while he was climbing out of the aircraft.
Can’t find any substantiation of this accident!
?? 1979: LOCKHEED F-104 STARFIGHTER (BINBROOK, UK).
One of the first early references to G-LOC was in 1979. On the break to land after completing his display, the pilot was killed pulling the aircraft it straight into the ground. G-LOC was assumed as the most probable cause.
Can’t find substantiation or date!
19 MAY 1991: PROVOST T5 (ALDERMASTON, BERKSHIRE, UK)
Crashed during a low level turn while practising for an air display.
Detail required. Cause?
Only Vulcan I know of lost at a US airshow was in 1978 at NAS Glenview.
I thought the Victor SR2 crash was in 1974 at the disbandment parade. A colleague of mine was stationed at Wyton and witnessed it and was called on to “pick up the pieces” so to speak. He said it must have been early ’70s?…
I can substantiate the Harrier incident as per my previous post!!! 6 September 1975.
I think the F104 incident must be the Yeovilton one, cant recall anything about a ‘104 lost at Binbrook…
I believe the provost crash in 1991 was a “piston” Provost rather than a JP. Certainly the RAF were still flying the JP and the ’91 season was flown by 6FTS right through to September.
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