Kinloss – Belfast

On January 10, 1964 at 12:00 AM, Kinloss – Belfast experienced a crash involving Avro 696 Shackleton, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Inverness Inverness-shire.

The flight was categorized as military and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 5 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Few minutes after takeoff from RAF Kinloss, en route to Belfast, the crew informed ATC that the engin number three oversped and caught fire. Shortly later, the engine detached and the crew was forced to shut down the engine number four. In such conditions, the crew decided to divert to Inverness Airport but out of control, the airplane lost height and crashed in a field located in Culloden Moor, about 4 miles southwest of the airport. People taking part to an open air party were able to evacuate all five crew members who were injured. The aircraft was destroyed. Crew: F/Lt J. Gladstone, pilot, F/O Jim Lee, copilot, John Mepham, flight engineer, Jamie Hamilton, John R. Hudson.

Aircraft reference details include registration XF710, year of manufacture 1959.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 57.0833°, -4.6667°.