Date:	Tuesday 22 July 1958
Time:
Type:	Gloster Javelin FAW.1
Owner/operator:	87 Sqn RAF
Registration:	XA559
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Brüggen, Elmpt‎, ‎North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany -   Germany
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Brüggen, Elmpt‎, ‎North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Written off (destroyed) 22-07-1958 when Engine caught fire on startup at RAF Brüggen, Elmpt‎, ‎North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. Cause attributed to a hydraulic leak in the area between the engines igniting. Both crew - Flt Lt R.A.R. Carrey (pilot) and Flt Lt Alec Cooper (navigator) - escaped safely.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain) published 2001
2. Gloster Javelin: An Operation History By Michael Napier p.170
3. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1958.htm
4. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Gloster_Javelin.htm]

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Aug-2011 13:07	Uli Elch	Added
24-Nov-2016 14:29	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Nov-2016 16:27	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
12-Nov-2018 17:35	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]