Helicopter Accidents

Year 1965 accidents

Westland Wessex Accidents

Year	Version	C/N
1965	has.1	wa 52	XM931 : 28 Feb 1965 as 819 Sq / 321-R while detached for Planeguard duty to HMS Ark Royal ingested snow and ditched c 25nm SE Wick. Wreck recovered but later scrapped (1966 ?).
1965	has.1	wa 59	XP108 : 845Sq/E-A May 1962, 845Sq/E-B w/o 4 Mar 1965 near Nanga Gaat, Borneo.
1965	has.1	wa 77	XP144 : Westland Wessex HAS.1, c/n WA077, f/f:?; del Royal Navy as XP144, 03/07/1962; w/o 08/07/1965.
1965	has.1	wa 87	XP154 : 845Sq/N-A by Nov 1962, 814Sq/D-V by Oct 1964, 845Sq/D by Dec 1964 w/o 9 May 1965 shortly after take off, Sarawak
1965	has.1	wa 97	XS118 : MoD fleet at Rolls Royce, Hucknall by summer 1963 for engine trials. Crashed following engine flame out 25 May 1965 nr Hucknall. Fleetlands by Aug 1965, sold for scrap 1966.
1965	has.1	wa102	XS123 : 820Sq Wessex HAS.1 as /291-E ditched and sank in the Malacca Strait, while operating from HMS Eagle.
1965	has.1	wa110	XS151 : 845Sq/R-B collided with XS154 and w/o 12 Apr 1965 at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak
1965	has.1	wa113	XS154 : 706Sq/V by Mar 1964, 845Sq/V-B by Apr 1964, collided with XS151 and w/o 12 Apr 1965 at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak
1965	has.31	wa207	N7-207 : Westland Wessex HAS.31A, c/n WA207, f/f:20/11/62; del RAN as N7-207, 887, 12May62; recoded 817, unk; ditched 14/09/64, aircraft had a power loss and ditched at Shoalhaven Bight and sank. The crew LCDR Smiley USN, S/Lt(P)P.00 Ward RAN, P.O. R. Barnes and Leading Seaman D. J. Sanderson rescued; written off: 20/07/65.
1965	hu.5	wa161	XS487 : 848Sq/H-CU by Jun 1964, 707Sq/U-CU by Jan 1965, w/o 7 Apr 1965 after it hit trees on Salisbury Plain.
1965	hu.5	wa171	XS497 : 848Sq/S-A by Jan 1965, crashed and w/o 14 Dec 1965 after main engines failure near Bau, c 15nm SW of Kuching, Sarawak