Manston - Manston

On November 20, 1947 at 12:00 AM, Manston - Manston experienced a crash involving Vickers 619 Wellington X, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Birchington-on-Sea Kent.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 3 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 25.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew was completing a training sortie over the North Sea when the right engine failed in flight. The captain reduced his altitude and elected to return to Manston for an emergency landing. While descending to an altitude of 800 feet and while flying across the last cloud layer, the aircraft stalled and crashed into the sea, few miles off Birchington-on-Sea. A crew member was killed while three others were rescued.

Aircraft reference details include registration RP500.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 51.3739°, 1.3071°.