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Pelican 16 wreck.
It took us about 3 hours desert ride to get to this site and it's polisario guards. Not sure what they are guarding but they are a sad site...
Restored to flying condition by volunteers in 1994, Pelican 16 was offered to take part in the Fairford Military Air Tattoo in the United Kingdom and departed South Africa for England on July 12th, 1994.
The departure from Cape Town (CT) was scheduled for a midnight take-off, on Friday 08 July 1994. The entire flight from CT to the UK, entailed four legs, with stops in between and the routes were planned for as follow:
a. CT to Libreville, Gabon
b. Libreville to Abidjan, Ivory Coast
c. Abidjan to Lisbon, Portugal
d. Lisbon to Duxford, England
(The return flight to SA, one month later, would have been just the reverse of the above route.)
Flown by a group of active SAAF pilots, Pelican 16 was operating over the Sahara desert on the night of July 13th. They were alerted to a warning on #4 engine, indicating signs of overheating, the engine was shutdown, as a precautionary measure and power was increased on the other three engines, in order to maintain the safety altitude.
The propellers on #4 feathered properly. The reason for the indication of overheating, can be contributed to a suspicion of a possible leak within the coolant system. However, within approximately 15 minutes after shutting down #4, sparks were seen emitting from #3, which ensued into flames around the contra-rotating propeller spinners.
The #3 engine was also shutdown, after the flames were successfully extinguished by the activation of the engine fire extinguishing system. However, after shutting down #3, the propellers would not feather completely and remained windmilling at +- 150 RPM.
The aircraft was now rapidly losing height and it was elected to restart #4 to gain height again. Within +- 10 minutes after restarting #4, the engine became so hot, that the exhaust stacks reflected a white magnesium glow. #4 was then shutdown for the second time, but this time round the propellers would not feather completely and they kept windmilling, much faster than those of #3, at +- 650 RPM.
With two sets of windmilling propellers, both on the same wing, a crash landing became inevitable, as asymmetric forces began to gain the upper hand.
The terrain where the crash landing was eventually executed, (approximately 14 km from the Eastern border of West Sahara with Mauritania), was indeed flat sands, but with multiple rocky outcrops in the area. In fact, the impact was, very fortunately, right on top of a slightly raised rocky outcrop and from there the aircraft skidded along the sandy surface, until she suddenly slewed by 90° to the left and thereafter skidded sideways to the right, before coming to a standstill.
The distance from point of impact and coming to a standstill, was paced off later that morning, after it became daylight, to be 243 metres – a very short landing for a Shackleton!
The failure of #3, was determined to be a probable Translation Unit (TU) failure. The TU is situated between the two contra-rotating propellers, inside the engine cowlings. It is attached to the front propeller by three rack bolts and it governs the rear propeller. After removing the front spinner from #3 engine later that morning, quite a few ball-bearings were found to be strewn inside the spinner. That confirmed the suspicion of a TU failure, which resulted on account of the rack bolts that pulled the TU apart. The latter can only be surmised that the cause was on account of the increased RPM on the three remaining engines, after #4 was initially shutdown. Why it happened, is still unknown.
Though none of the crew were seriously injured by the landing, all 19 men were miles from any assistance and in the middle of an active warzone. The crew of Pelican 16 were quickly located and returned safely to South Africa.
Time of the crash landing was at 01h40 GMT.
This is the photo taken from the French rescue aircraft “Pelican 16” taken after the belly landing in the Sahara desert – the ’19 OK’ written on the ground is to inform any rescue aircraft of the number of surviving souls from the crash.
The original sign on the ground was structured by the laying out of a combination of the spare orange flying suits and the single-man dinghies.
The word “OK” is no longer clearly visible when this photo was taken from the Atlantique ll Maritime aircraft, belonging to the French Navy’s 22 Squadron, that was on detached duty at Dakar, Senegal, from where it was scrambled at 04h00 GMT that morning, to conduct the search of the 19 souls of “Pelican 16”.
She is still where she landed – located about 2 hours drive from Zouérat in northern Mauritania in contested territory – lying open to the desert elements and subject to decay as there is no means of retrieving this beautiful aircraft.
alla fine anche io sono riuscito ad entrare nel luogo dove riposa da decenni un fiat 690T2 in compagnia di altre meraviglie che sempre per la solita fretta non ho fotografato tutte! purtroppo quando ci sono andato la D3200 era in riparazione e ho dovuto usare la vecchia!
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Overturned truck on the side of the road (India)
People and kids from the nearby village came to see the wreck. There was no injury, but some mechanical damage (front right wheel ripped off).
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The Drumbeg wreck site in the Highland's is one of Scotland's Historic Marine Protected Areas. One of the most exciting finds from the wreck survey at Drumbeg was a delft tile depicting a Dutch ship which was probably not too different from the wreck itself!
Photograph by J. McCarthy (WA Coastal & Marine), © Copyright: Historic Environment Scotland.
For more on this story visit: www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2013/03/21/drumbeg
the wreck of the Countess of Erne, Portland Harbour.
In its prime the Countess of Erne was a paddle steamer, but was used in later life as a coal hulk in Portland harbour. It sank in 1935 after its moorings broke lose. The site is within the shelter of the harbour, parallel to the northeast wall next to the white lighthouse - there is usually a fixed shot marking the stern which is the north end of the wreck. The wreckage lies upright and is still intact, although much of the superstructure has gone. The visibility can be really bad because of the its location inside silty Portland Harbour. There is some fish life however, and a few holes in the wreck to inspect. It lies upright on the sea floor and some of the holds could be entered if the visibility remains good
August 13, 2010 (Friday) - Was a great day to head to the water. It's quite a hike down from the road. Still hard to believe the city is just around the corner ...
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Made some minor improvements to Wreck-Gar. His front wheel can be removed off the shoulder and attaches to his forearm (shield) Also added lots of spikes, rust and damage.
This is the wreck at Bunbeg (also called Magheraclogher) Beach in Donegal Ireland. A superb location to go to and see. Hope you enjoy this image.
This is an HDR shot with a little bit of Topaz Labs spicify added.
Wreck of a Seat cordoba mk1 after Being used in a training for firefighters at the fire station of the town of Hengelo @the netherlands