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Date: | Sunday 27 November 1955 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 605 (County of Warwick) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WA457 |
MSN: | EEP/422.. |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 mile south of RAF Honiley, Wroxhall, Warwickshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Vampire WA457: Delivered 4/9/1951. Service career was with 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAF.
Written off (destroyed) Engine failed, hit trees in circuit, crashed one mile south of RAF Honiley, Warwickshire and caught fire on impact. 27/11/1955
Crew:
P/O (2608819) Grahame Otto HAUSER (pilot) RAF - killed (died of his injuries the following day).
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.176 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 10)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.168
4.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt 7.
http://www.605squadron.co.uk/We%20Never%20Slept%20-%20The%20Story%20of%20605%20Squadron.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-May-2008 05:30 |
JINX |
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10-Jan-2012 14:49 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Source] |
23-May-2019 17:03 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
10-Jan-2020 21:55 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator] |
25-Jan-2020 22:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
06-Jun-2020 15:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Jan-2022 10:45 |
Nepa |
Updated [Time, Location, Narrative, Operator] |