Date:	Saturday 3 March 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.113 Vampire NF(T) Mk 10
Owner/operator:	CNCS RAF
Registration:	WM677
MSN:	13050
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Cookley Green, 2 miles South of Watlington, Oxfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Shawbury, Shropshire (EGOS)
Destination airport:	RAF Benson, Oxfordshire (EGUB)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Written off 3/3/56: Hit trees on rising ground in bad visibility near Cookley Green, two miles south of Watlington, Oxfordshire while on approach to RAF Benson. Both crew (Central Navigation & Control School) were killed.

Crew of Vampire WM677:
Flight Sergeant Bickley Julian Marriott RAF (pilot, Service Number 1818012, aged 30) - killed on active service 3/3/56, Buried at St Mary's Churchyard and Extension, Shawbury, Shropshire
Sergeant John Blanchland Chapman RAF (Passenger, aged 23) - killed on active service 3/3/56

Sergeant John Blanchland Chapman was not aircrew - he was ground crew (an airframe engineer/fitter) who had been taken on board as a passenger on an "air experience flight"

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 79)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.183
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH113%20prodn%20list.txt
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WM
8. https://www.militaryimages.net/media/marriott-bickley-julian.55829/

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