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G-AOVB Crashed in Gan
G-AOVB nose down!!
G-AOVB was badly damaged after a heavy landing at Gan in the Maldive Islands on the
10th October 1965
.
It crashed on an inbound trooping flight from Bahrain to Australia, with 120 passengers onboard.
G-AOVB after crash landing
G-AOVB up on jacks
A maintenance team was sent from London to repair the damaged aircraft, with help from the RAF.
The RAF applied the nose art to the
front of the plane.