Pembroke Dock - Calshot

On June 4, 1955 at 09:30 AM, Pembroke Dock - Calshot experienced a crash involving Short S.25 Sunderland, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Eastbourne East Sussex.

The flight was categorized as demonstration and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

14 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 10 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 28.6%.

Crew on board: 14, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew left Pembroke Dock for RAF Calshot and was detached to take part to a presentation to the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) celebrations at Eastbourne, and was supposed to be displayed to welcome the Duke of Edinburgh. While landing on rough sea, the airplane hit waves, nosed down and plunged into the water before coming to rest few dozen yards off shore. Four crew members were killed, two other were injured and eight were unhurt. The aircraft was destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration RN288.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 50.7664°, 0.2782°.