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ARTESH · Jun 9, 2021

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Wurger · Jun 10, 2021

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Lucky13 · Jun 12, 2021

Type: Handley Page Victor K.2
Owner/operator: 55 Squadron Royal Air Force (55 Sqn RAF)
Registration: XL513
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: RAF Marham, Norfolk (EGYM) -

United Kingdom
Phase: Take off
Nature: Military
Departur Airport: RAF Marham, Norfolk (EGYM)
Destination Airport:
Narrative: Written off 23/9/1976 when overran on rejected take off from RAF Marham, Norfolk, after birdstrike and caught fire. Per eywitness report:

"... it was a bird strike but the captain chose to abort take off after rotate speed! Brakes and brake chute failed to stop aircraft slowly going into the overshoot. One main undercarriage broke off backwards and I think if memory serves me right [the Victor] broke its back. Apparently one of the crew managed to get his parachute hooked up while exiting the aircraft and streamed it across the grass but everyone got out safely."

Wurger · Jun 12, 2021

Lucky13 · Jun 12, 2021

Type: Handley Page Victor B.1A
Owner/operator: 15 Squadron Royal Air Force (15 Sqn RAF)
Registration: XH613
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Castle Bytham, Lincolnshire, 5 miles NE of RAF Cottesmore -

United Kingdom
Phase: Approach
Nature: Military
Departure Airport: RAF Cottesmore, Rutland (EGXJ)
Destination Airport: RAF Cottesmore, Rutland (EGXJ)
Narrative: On 14/6/1962, whilst approaching RAF Cottesmore at the end of a sortie, all four engines ran down because the electrical connectors became disconnected on the throttle box. The aircraft was being flown by the squadron commander; Wg Cdr Matthews with Fg Off Lowther as his co-pilot. On the order to abandon the aircraft, it is believed that the rear crew left the aircraft in less than half a minute and, although one man left the rubber of his flying boots along the fuselage, the entire crew survived. It was particularly tragic, therefore, that a few days later another Victor from the Cottesmore sister squadron should crash with the loss of all onboard. (See the crash of XA929 of 10 Sqn, RAF, on 16/6/1962)

The first three crew to bail out landed beside the "Ram Jam Inn" on the A1 where liquid sustenance was provided by the landlord. The two pilots ejected and landed some distance away, and upon reaching the same "hostelry" were told by the landlord that it was closed!

Lucky13 · Jun 12, 2021

Avro Vulcan B1, XA913, Delivered December 1957.
Converted to B1A standard in 1961.
Stored at St. Athan before being scrapped in May 1968.

Edit: Two real Vulcans were also utilised during filming; aircraft XA913 was used in ground sequences and XH506 for flying sequences. Both were early B.1A models that were withdrawn from service and scrapped by 1968 – three years after Thunderball was released.