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C/N wa 841 Built 1976 -
Written off
1982
Helicopter Westland Sea King HAS.2 Serial wa 841 Register XZ573 used by Fleet Air Arm RN (Royal Navy). Built 1976. Aircraft history and location XZ573 1972-05-17 w/o 17may72 lost off HMS Hermes. The crew were rescued and she was sunk by RN gunfire. The cause is recorded as "unserviceable Radar Altimeter" which is believed to be a euphemism for the wrong Range Computer being fitted to the Transmitter/Receiver (i.e. card #6 missing), which would (in an RN Sea King) lead to the Indicators reading 10 times the actual range (in this case, height above sea level). 1976-08-05 RN Sea King HAS.2 f/f 05aug76, d/d 13sep76 w/o 18may82 asg 826Sqn during Falklands/Malvinas War, 2 m off HMS Hermes
826 NAS HAS.2 826Sq/141-TG by Feb 1977 826Sq/141-B by May 1979 still Jun 1979 826 NAS 1979-06-06 A RMB Bickleigh 826Sq /141, noted at Bickleigh 6 Jun 1979 826 NAS 1979-07-25 B EGDR RN HAS.2 noted at RNAS Culdrose Air Day coded 143-B with 826NAS 826 NAS Westland Sea King HAS.5 conv to HAS.5 from Jun 1980 706Sq/593-CU by Jan 1981 820Sq/22 Apr 1982 826Sq by May 1982 706 NAS
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