Serial | R3/EA3/6662 | |||||||||||||||
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Model | Canberra B.2 | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | w/o 08.8.1985 when instruments indicated that the aircraft was not continuing to accelerate during take off from RAF Alconbury, The pilot abandoned take off and raised the undercarriage, but only one side retracted, and the aircraft slewed into the landing lights and caught fire (with100 Sqn); the subsequent investigation found the aircraft was accelerating normally, the fault was caused by a defective air mileage unit; to RAF Wyton fire dump as GIA 8887M; | |||||||||||||||
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