Helicopter Accidents

Year 1969 accidents

Westland Wessex Accidents

Year	Version	C/N
1969	has.1	wa 86	XP153 : 826Sq/143-E by Dec 1968, w/o 25 Nov 1969 with 826Sq (HMS Eagle), ditched off Portugal during Exercise Decamp, after engine failure while operating from RFA Olmeda (A124).
1969	has.1	wa105	XS126 : 826Sq/142-E by Nov 1968, w/o 9 Sep 1969 with 826Sq, ditched in Celtic Sea while operating from HMS Eagle (R05).
1969	has.31	wa211	N7-211 : 1969 ditching, if my memory serves me correct, there was an naval exercise on and we (The Post Office) had sent out approx 27 bags of mail to be delivered by helo and apparently they were on their last delivery and pick up of mail when it happened... the mail bags were later pickup and brought back to us at Naval Post Office HMAS Albatross, we dried the mail what was wet and they caught the next mail out...Staff at 1969) the Post Office was Peter MacBeth (Postmaster), Warren Job (Postal Clerk), Jane Bennett (Postwoman)
1969	hc.2	wa622	XV727 : Westland Wessex HC.2, c/n WA622, f/f: 22/04/1968; del Royal Air Force as XV727, 02/05/1968; w/o 31/01/1969.
1969	hu.5	wa188	XS519 : Westland Wessex HU.5, c/n WA188, f/f:?; del Royal Navy as XS519, 12/12/1964; w/o 18/03/1969.
1969	hu.5	wa556	XT774 : Scrapped, Siddal by (?)
1969	mk.60	wa562	VH-BHL : Early 1969, caught fire during overnight stop on offshore rig (Glomar Tasman) Sparks from funnel got in to cockpit and burnt out top section of Heli down to engine firewall (which worked in reverse!). Heli returned to UK in box