Date:	Tuesday 15 November 1949
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor Mk VII
Owner/operator:	203 AFS RAF
Registration:	VW448
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kirkburn, 3 miles South West of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middleton St. George, near Darlington, County Durham
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.7 VW448, 203 AFS, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 15 November 1949 when crashed at Kirkburn, 3 miles South West of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire. The aircraft was engaged on an asymmetric flying and circuit training sortie. Immediately after take-off, the aircraft flew into a fog bank. The aircraft emerged from the fog bank in a shallow dive, and struck a dozen lighting poles at an altitude of 15 feet with its starboard wing.

The aircraft then hit a road, bounced back into the air, continued on for a bout 300 yards, disintegrating in the process, before coming to a halt in a ploughed field.

Pilot II P G Rees, RAF (aged 25) killed.

1. Death notices and funeral reports of which I have copies from the Barry & District News, published in the weeks after the death and the ensuing funeral
2. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.582
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VW
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkburn

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Mar-2016 14:19	Taffdiver	Added
18-Oct-2019 17:19	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
05-Nov-2019 10:22	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]