ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 160130
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| Date: | Wednesday 9 February 1966 |
| Time: | c. 00:00 loc |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen FAW.2 |
| Owner/operator: | 766 NAS FAA RN |
| Registration: | XJ567 |
| MSN: | 11049 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Between Queen Camel and South Cadbury, Somerset -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RNAS Yeovilton (EGVL) |
| RNAS Yeovilton (EGVL) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Written off 9/2/1966: The pilot became disorientated during a night formation GCA to Yeovilton, Somerset while in cloud. It crashed at South Cadbury after the pilot (Sub Lt. P. Latham) had ejected. The observer (Lt Anthony D. Stevens) did not leave the aircraft and was killed
Per eyewitness report: "On arrival at the site of the crash, somewhere in the region of Queen Camel and South Cadbury, we were formed in line across the lower slopes of a muddy field and made our way uphill, in the wind and rain, towards the visible wreck. The aircraft had driven itself into the soft wet earth nose and starboard wing down with the tail booms having snapped off and the tail inverted on top of the wreck. The pilot was recovered from an adjacent field but the realization of the whereabouts of the observer, a Qualified Flying Instructor (QFI), caused some distress as I, by having a torch, had been asked to accompany Cdr Air to investigate the wreck more closely. Quite a number of our apprentice class at Arbroath had answered the call for volunteers for flying duty, I amongst them. Any idea I had of continuing down that path was quashed that night, I think. I later met up with one ex-colleague who had become an observer on Buccaneers and had experienced an ejection after a catapult launch.
The aircraft had been on a training sortie and suffered a master reference gyro (MRG) failure and thus lacked blind flying instruments. It had become separated from a 'buddy' aircraft in low cloud on approach at low level. Teams of workers, on rotation, were camped out in the fields for some weeks recovering the wreck. Not a pleasant task."
Sources:
1. http://lionels.orpheusweb.co.uk/AirSea/SeaVixen/InfoRef.html
2. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1016325/
3. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1966.htm
4. http://web.archive.org/web/20120622210245/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/SeaVixen.htm
5. http://www.seavixen.org/accidents/sea-vixen-accidents-public-page
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Sep-2013 23:52 | Dr.John Smith | Added |
| 05-Sep-2013 23:57 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 26-Feb-2014 14:52 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 13-Feb-2020 15:59 | Iwosh | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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