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Title:SEA VENOM OF 893 SQUADRON CRASH LANDS ON HMS EAGLE OFF PORT SAID [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1604
Other titles:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SUEZ [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:The deck of HMS Eagle is cleared for a flak-damaged Sea Venom to make a landing without undercarriage. After the landing, the damaged aircraft is cleared from the deck and the pilot removed to the carrier's sick bay.
Description:LA from the deck of HMS Eagle as a French naval Piasecki Retriever touches down aft. HA forward from the island to a RN Whirlwind as it takes off and makes away to port. LS aft past the scanning hayrake aerial of the Type 982 to Sea Venom as it closes from aft to make a low pass over the deck. LS over a flight deck crowded with Wyverns and Venoms, to the escorting destroyer HMS St Kitts (D.18). HA to Sea Venom FAW.21 095 (serial WW 284) of 893 Squadron on deck after a landing without undercarriage - deck crew open the cockpit and remove the pilot and the ship's mobile aircraft handling crane approaches. Cut back to the scene before the actual landing - the Venom makes a low pass over the deck, and then an approach which looks like a landing attempt, but the sequence cuts before contact - in the background, the island is crowded with onlookers. MS across the deck as Wyvern S.4s are moved about by tractors - presumably the deck is being cleared for the damaged Venom's landing attempt. HA as a party of stretcher bearers carrying the wounded pilot go down on the forward lift to the carrier's sick bay. The crane moves the damaged Venom forward towards the Fly 1 park.
Alternative Title:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SUEZ [Allocated Series Title]