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7 September 1967 - Lightning F6 XR766 of No. 23 Squadron RAF from RAF Leuchars was abandoned in North Sea, 51 miles ENE of RAF Leuchars official report gives the exact location as being at co-ordinates 56'45".00N, 1'30".00W, pilot successfully ejected and was recovered by a Westland Whirlwind (helicopter) of No. 202 Squadron RAF
List of accidents and incidents involving the English Electric Lightning; List of F-15 losses; List of accidents and incidents involving the Grumman A-6 Intruder; List of Harrier family losses; Accidents and incidents involving the JAS 39 Gripen
Some sources report this accident as a helicopter crash. [294] 6 May USMC McDonnell RF-4B Phantom II, BuNo 153090, [192] of VMCJ-3, MCAS El Toro, California, on out-and-back familiarization flight from MCAS Yuma, Arizona, is lost ~2 miles off of Del Mar, California in the Pacific when the pilot gets into an aerobatic maneuver stall. Both crew ...
November 14 – An English Electric Lightning of Thunder City experienced a rear fuselage fire leading to hydraulic failure while performing at Overberg Airshow in Bredasdorp, South Africa. The pilot tried to get the aircraft back to base; after failure of the canopy jettison system he was unable to use the ejection seat and the aircraft ...
The English Electric Lightning was a high-performance short-range interceptor aircraft. The Lightning had a max takeoff weight of 20 tons, and could reach Mach 2.0. [1] The aircraft involved in the incident was the second production Lightning, designated XM135. [2]
Plane crash ? Emley Moor, Great Britain March 19, 1969: Guyed tubular steel mast 385 Ice Replaced by 330 m free-standing concrete tower Orlunda, Sweden July 12, 1970: Guyed steel lattice mast 250 Lightning The base insulator was destroyed KOIN-TV Towers, Portland, Oregon: February 28, 1971: Guyed steel lattice mast 305 & 213 Ice Two towers ...
The South African accident report after the Overberg crash (caused by gross safety violations on the part of pilot, ground crew and SAAF authorities) mistakenly claimed that the UK CAA regarded the Lightning as having a worse in-service safety record than comparable military aircraft.
An English Electric Lightning T5, ZU-BEX, (RAF No. XS451) crashed while carrying out a display at the biennial South African Air Force Overberg Airshow held at AFB Overberg near Bredasdorp on 14 November 2009. ZU-BEX in 2002. The aircraft suffered hydraulic failure after a fire started in the rear of the fuselage.