Date:	Tuesday 27 February 1951
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	205 AFS RAF
Registration:	WA677
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, 4 miles off Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Middleton St. George, Co. Durham
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T Mk.7 WA677, 205 AFS (Advanced Flying School) RAF. Delivered 27/4/1950. Written off 27/2/1951 when the aircraft spun into the North Sea, 4 miles off Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire. The aircraft spun into the sea from an altitude of 20,000 feet, and at no point did the pilot attempt to make a recovery. It is therefore presumed that anoxia (Oxygen Starvation) - although the RAF Board of Inquiry into the incident was inconclusive on this matter. The pilot was killed, but huis body was recovered.

Crew of Meteor WA677:
Pilot Officer (Pilot IV) Alan HOLBOW, RAF (pilot, Service Number4037564, aged 26) - killed on active service 27/2/1951, buried at Bradford-on-Avon Municipal Cemetery, Wiltshire

Note that some published sources give the crash location as "off the Durham coast" nearer Seaton Carew/Hartlepool some 15 miles to the North.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.111 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.118
4. 205 AFS ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2145/2 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162859
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
6. http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/Archivesmonths/1982/1982%20-%20Apr.pdf
7. https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm
8. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39111/supplement/62/data.pdf
9. https://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Bradford-on-Avon/Bradford-on-Avon%20-%20Municipal%20Cemetery%20Survey.pdf
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marske-by-the-Sea .

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
31-May-2008 07:14	JINX	Added
12-Jun-2008 08:42	JINX	Updated
12-May-2015 07:19	Anthony COX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
12-Jan-2021 15:18	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
13-Jan-2021 15:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
13-Jan-2021 15:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
13-Jan-2021 20:21	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Operator]