Date:	Saturday 12 July 1952
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	72 (Basutoland) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WA366
MSN:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF North Weald, Essex, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF North Weald, Essex
Destination airport:	RAF North Weald, Essex
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Vampire WA366: delivered 3/4/1951. Written off 12/7/1952 when collided with VV683 during formation aerobatics & dived into ground. According to "The Hurricane", the newsletter of the North Weald Airfield Museum Association (Summer 2015 edition):

"One year after arriving at North Weald, on July 12, 1952, that football friendship was suddenly cut short by another Vampire accident in which a formation of four 72 Squadron Vampire FB5 aircraft took off from North Weald on a practice training mission for the forthcoming Battle of Britain display. The squadron were flying in a loose diamond formation with Squadron leader Clive Mason as leader, Sgt Gordon Buckle to his left and slightly astern, Sgt Cecil Victor Randall (24) to the right and astern and Ray Wyborn (25) to the rear.

The formation performed loops and rolls for some 20 minutes a distance away from North Weald, before returning to repeat what they had practiced over the airfield. After completing a roll and loop in very close formation an attempted roll to the left at 2,000 feet resulted in a collision between the aircraft of Randall and Wyborn [WA366 and VV683] to the left rear of the formation. Neither survived".
Crew of Vampire WA366
Sgt (4148610) Cecil Victor Randall (pilot) RAF- killed 12/7/1952

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p 130 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 267
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. The Hurricane (Newsletter of the North Weald Airfield Museum Association Summer 2015): http://www.nwamuseum.co.uk/index_htm_files/Summer%202015.pdf
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
28-May-2008 23:47	JINX	Added
15-Jan-2012 02:45	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Source]
09-Jan-2020 15:21	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Operator]
15-Mar-2021 16:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
01-May-2023 21:09	Nepa	Updated [[Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]]