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Holden's Lightning flight

unintended aircraft takeoff
Event Occurrence Q65063894

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
occurrence, flight[3]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
Location
RAF Lyneham[5]
Aircraft registration
XM135[6]
Damaged
tailstrike[14]
Destination point
RAF Lyneham[12]
Number of deaths
0[8]
Number of injured
0[10]
Number of participants
1[9]
Operator
RAF Maintenance Command[4]
Point in time
July 22, 1966[7]
Start point
RAF Lyneham[11]
Vessel
English Electric Lightning[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Walter Holden en Holden's Lightning flight en Taffy Holden en Walter "Taffy" Holden en XM135 de Flug der Lightning XM135 am 22. Juli 1966 fr vol de Holden sur Lightning
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
English Electric Lightning F.1 ‘XM135 - B’ (38439946610).jpg ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11h6m9g2fs

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Summary

Holden's Lightning flight is an occurrence[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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