| f/f 17/06/1981, d/d 05/08/1981, w/o 04/09/1998 when the aircraft suffered an hydraulic fire in the rear of the aircraft during a sonar search for the wreckage of Jaguar XZ108 (see above). This damaged the flight controls and burnt through wiring forcing the pilot to ditch into the sea. It rolled inverted but the four crew were rescued by Sea King HAR3A ZH541 and taken to hospital in Norwich. It was recovered and airlifted to Yeovilton for accident investigation and was later put into store at Fleetlands before being allocated to ground instruction at DCAE Gosport 19/09/2000 for ground instructional use as A2629, then to A2644, the cockpit section is used for ground instructional use at ETS Yeovilton from 04/2010, to Hixon 08/2013, fuselage to Abridge |
