Date:	Tuesday 24 July 1956
Time:	day
Type:	English Electric Canberra B.6
Owner/operator:	Radar Reconnaissance Flt RAF
Registration:	XH569
MSN:	71400
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Bells Farm, Woodhurst, near RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire (EGUY)
Destination airport:	RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire (EGUY)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
EE Canberra B.Mk.6 XH569: One of four aircraft (XH567-XH570) ordered to Contract 6/Acft/11313 as replacements for aircraft diverted overseas. Notified as awaiting collection 11/3/55. Sole operational service was with the Radar Reconnaissance Flight at RAF Wyton.

Written off (destroyed) 24/7/56: Following an earlier engine explosion, one engine failed and power was lost on the other while on approach to Wyton, Cambs. It crashed at Bells Farm, Woodhurst, Cambridgeshire. Both crew survived

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.181 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 42)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.203
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XH

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Jan-2012 14:59	Dr. John Smith	Added
06-May-2013 18:50	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location]
07-Aug-2013 07:55	lamplighter1	Updated [[Operator, Location]]
23-Jun-2020 23:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
25-Jun-2020 13:45	Digger	Updated [Operator, Operator]