ASN Aircraft accident 03-JAN-1966 Westland Scout AH.1 XR638
Date: 03-JAN-1966
Time:
Type: Westland Scout AH.1
Owner/operator: 21 Flt AAC
Registration: XR638
C/n / msn: F9538
Fatalities: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities: 0
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Marlborough, Wiltshire - United Kingdom
Phase: En route
Nature: Delivery
Departure airport: RNAY Wroughton, Wiltshire
Destination airport: AAC Middle Wallop
Narrative:
Encountered engine problems while on a delivery flight from Wroughton to Middle Wallop. It lost height and crashed tail first at Marlborough, Wiltshire. It then caught fire and burnt out killing the two crew. Caused by inadvertent closure of the fuel cock in mistake for the heater control
ASN Aircraft accident 10-MAR-1966 Westland Scout AH.1 XT619
Date: 10-MAR-1966
Time:
Type: Westland Scout AH.1
Owner/operator: 21 Flt AAC
Registration: XT619
C/n / msn: F9625
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities: 0
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Stanford PTA, near Thetford, Norfolk - United Kingdom
Phase: En route
Nature: Military
Departure airport: Stanford Army Training Area, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Written off 10/3/1966: While serving with 21 Flt, Army Air Corps, the aircraft was carrying a soldier in a stretcher pod as part of a casevac scenario, during Exercise ‘Baker’s Dozen', at the Stanford PTA, near Thetford, Norfolk. The pilot inadvertently shut off the fuel cock instead of the cabin heater. The pilot reopened the fuel cock, but during the subsequent attempted emergency landing, the main rotors struck a tree and the aircraft crashed in a ploughed field near Thetford. The two crew and the soldier in the stracher pod were injured.