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Date: | Wednesday 8 March 1950 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire F Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 203 AFS RAF |
Registration: | VF276 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Driffield, North Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Driffeld, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Written off (damaged beyond repair) when lost wing tank on take-off from RAF Driffield, North Yorkshire, stalled and crashed 8.3.50. On take off the starboard long range drop tank came off and the aircraft climbed steeply. The port wing then dropped and the aircraft slipped into the ground from about 60 feet. Pilot - Peter James Martin (service number 3110222, aged 20) - killed
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.89 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.29
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VF 6.
https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-329990-p-14.html 7.
http://veterans.mod.uk/roll-of-honour.php?SerialNo=R1072 .
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Mar-2013 13:44 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
04-Dec-2018 20:08 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
08-Jan-2020 21:24 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator] |
15-Feb-2020 15:08 |
Dr J P Shipley |
Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
15-Dec-2020 13:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
15-Dec-2020 13:44 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
15-Dec-2020 17:45 |
Komes |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |