| Serial | 095228 | |||||||||||||||
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| First Flight | 15.10.1965 | |||||||||||||||
| Model | Lightning F.6 | |||||||||||||||
| Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
| Comments | w/o 01.7.1987 crashed following a live firing run on a towed target banner; one round struck and broke off a wheel on the banner, which the pilot was unable to avoid, and it entered the air intake causing the No 1 engine to seize and damaging the No 2 engine; the pilot ejected during the approach to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, after the No 2 engine finally lost power, and the aircraft crashed into a vineyard; | |||||||||||||||
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