ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 142413
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| Date: | Friday 2 September 1960 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  English Electric Lightning F1A |
| Owner/operator: | BAC (British Aircraft Corporation) |
| Registration: | XM170 |
| MSN: | 95058 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Warton, Lancashire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Samlesbury Airfield, Lancashire |
| Warton Airfield, Lancashire (EGNO) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Suffered mercury contamination during its build which went undetected until its first flight from the BAC Works at Samlesbury to the BAC Flight Test facility at Warton, Lancashire on 2/9/1960. White fungus appeared on the airframe in several places. XM170 was put into quarantine for many years, before being removed to RAF 9 SoTT Newton on 18/3/1965 for use as Ground Instructional Airframe 7877M.
Total flying time on this airframe: 14 minutes(!) - all of it during the aircraft's one and only flight from Samlesbury to Warton on 2/9/1960.
To fire dump at RAF Swinderby in December 1966, finally scrapped 1977
Sources:
www.ukserials.com/losses-1960.htm
www.forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-46442.html
http://www.macksaviation.com/LightningProduction.php?show=XM170 [photo of XM170 on the fire dump at Swinderby in 1973]
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Feb-2012 20:56 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 09-Feb-2012 22:06 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jun-2012 16:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jun-2012 16:31 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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