An Avro Vulcan B1 bomber came incredibly close to crashing at the Wellington Airport Airshow.
In October of 1959, 3 Avro Vulcan Nuclear Bombers were performing at the opening of the new Wellington International Airport in New Zealand. It was an exciting time for airshows, especially with all the new futuristic jet aircraft on display. However, all these aircraft throwing themselves around the sky may be exciting, but disaster is never very far away. Accidents are rare but at this airshow, disaster was narrowly averted not once….but three times in one day.

Disaster also was averted with a Short Sunderland Flying Boat whilst carrying out a low level flypast along the runway. At the end of the airshow, four de Havilland Vampire Jet Fighters of the Royal New Zealand Air Force display team came within feet of crashing during their display.

Thankfully, disasters at air shows are rare, especially in the modern days, but this air show showed just how easily things can go very wrong.

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