Service Details
Name:
 STORAH
Given Name:
 NIGEL PETER
Initials:
 N P
Service No:
 2621760
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Unit:
 RAF Gutersloh
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Date of Death:
 1980-10-14
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Date of Birth:
 1953-05-04
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 XV792, Crashed after a technical defect, an uncontrolled roll developed, when coming into a hover approach at RAF Gütersloh, West Germany. The subsequently RAF/MoD Board of Inquiry attributed the cause of the crash to failure of an aileron control linkage rod. The pilot ejected at 100 feet AGL, and 80-90 degrees of bank, but was killed
Additional
Information:
Of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Yorkshire
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Cemetery:
 NEWTON-UPON-OUSE (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
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