50101/RN24. Crashed on an 824Sqn Observer instructor training sortie at RNASCuldrose (N50 05.05 W005 15.50) on Tuesday 30 March 2003 after failureof the tail rotor assembly. Impacted ground at the edge of main runway with a high rate of yaw from 5 metre hover. No fatalities,1 major injury. Cat 5 damage to aircraft & engines (Beyondcost-effective repair) 824 NAS
this aircraft did not crash at RNAS Culdrose, this one ditched in the Inner Sound between Applecross in Wester Ross and the island of Raasay, near Skye. its was ZH859 that had a heavy landing on the hardstanding outside 824Sqn, RNAS Culdrose 824 NAS
Accident w/o 27 Oct 2000 off Raasay while conducting sonar trials with 700Sq(M) Sq. Wreck recovered in several pieces, to Yeovilton by Dec 2000. 700 NAS
