Date:	Thursday 14 September 1950
Time:	morning
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	CFE RAF
Registration:	VW431
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1.5 miles west of Wendling, Breckland, Norfolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor VW431, CFE (Central Fighter Establishment), RAF: delivered 05/07/1949. Written off (destroyed) 14/09/1950 when collided with USAF F-84D 48-754. The Meteor came down one-and-a-half miles west of Wendling, Breckland, Norfolk. Both pilots (one in each aircraft) were killed.

Crew of Meteor VW431:
Flight Lieutenant Ronald William HAPPE, RAF (Service Number 182710) - killed on active service 14-9-1950

The reported crash location is one-and-a-half miles west of Wendling, a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk at approximate co-ordinates 52.67904°N 0.85516°E

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.106 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.83
4. http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbasn.asp?offset=4775
5. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1946.html
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VW
7. F-84 Crash: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/115347
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendling,_Norfolk
9. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37942/supplement/1900/data.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Mar-2013 01:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
17-Jun-2013 13:37	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative]
15-Jan-2014 18:35	TB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Narrative]
15-Jan-2014 19:23	TB	Updated [Time]
30-Dec-2020 20:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
30-Dec-2020 20:59	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Operator]
26-Jun-2022 00:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Category]