XA 929 Akrotiri
I was at Akrotiri at the time and remember the crash, I saw it from an elevated road parallel to the runway. I do recall that there was some problem with the flaps. My dim memory was that the flaps had inadvertantly been selected fully down for take-off, instead of partially lowered to the correct take-off setting. It was not possible to get them from fully down to take-off without selecting them fully up and back down. I am stating this as 40 year old dim recollection and not a matter of fact. I was not a Victor pilot so if you know differently please correct me, but kindly!