Avro Shackleton XF702


This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.*

Belonging to 206 Sqn RAF, crashed on 21st December 1967 while taking part in an Anti Submarine Exercise. The Shackleton had encountered icing causing it to stall and dive near vertically into the ground.


This image courtesy of Stuart Whittaker

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*--wikimedia commons, original author Danial van der Merwe.