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Lighting Crash 1970

Does anyone know anything about the 5 Sqdn aircraft that crashed off Flamboro Head which was recovered with the canopy closed and no trace of the USexchange pilot.?

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11446022
Board of Inquiry: accident to Lightning XS 894; 5 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, on 8 September...

NOT DIGITISED - view at Kew or pay for copy.

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Catalogue description Alleged UFO incident: crash of Lightning F6, 8 September 1970

Access conditions: Closed For 90 years
Record opening date: 01 January 2085

https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...880566&catln=6

(sorry for the weird text sizes, copy/paste from elsewhere - pprune does not seem to have a way to fix it.)

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11446022 Board of Inquiry: accident to Lightning XS 894; 5 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, on 8 September... NOT DIGITISED - view at Kew or pay for copy. # # # Catalogue description Alleged UFO incident: crash of Lightning F6, 8 September 1970

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11446022
Board of Inquiry: accident to Lightning XS 894; 5 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, on 8 September...

NOT DIGITISED - view at Kew or pay for copy.

# # #

Catalogue description Alleged UFO incident: crash of Lightning F6, 8 September 1970