Date:	Friday 16 May 1952
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	RAF Flying College
Registration:	WA679
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1/2 mile north west of RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Manby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7, WA679 RAF Flying College, Manby: delivered 1/5/1950. Written off 16/5/1952 when crashed half-a-mile north west of RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire. During a training sortie from RAF Manby, Lincolnshire, a practice asymmetric appproach to RAF Strubby, Lincolnshire was undertaken. During the overshoot from this approach, power was applied to the starboard engine when the aircraft was at an altitude of approximately 250 feet.

The aircraft yawed to port, then rolled in the same direction. The rate of the roll increased, the aircraft went out of control, and dived in to the ground inverted, killing both crew.

Crew of Meteor WA679:
Flight Lieutenant Norman Joseph Woods, RAF (pilot, aged 25) - killed
Commander Peter John Patrick Leckie, RN (Fleet Air Arm Pilot, aged 33) - killed

Commander Leckie was officially attached to HMS Daedalus, the Royal Naval Air Station at Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p. 128 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 247
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
5. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1952
6. https://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1952.htm
7. http://www.thepeerage.com/p58488.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
31-May-2008 07:22	JINX	Added
07-Jun-2008 10:30	JINX	Updated
12-May-2015 08:26	Yety	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
07-Mar-2021 22:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
07-May-2021 20:41	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]