Date:	Saturday 14 March 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	CGS RAF
Registration:	WA762
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WA762, CGS (Central Gunnery School), RAF: Delivered 14 November 1950. Written off (destroyed) 14 March 1953 when flew into the ground on approach in bad weather at RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire. The aircraft struck the ground short of the runway when the pilot as attempting to land with the cockpit canopy misted over due to the poor weather. No fatalities reported, but the pilot may have sustained injuries.

Note: The two files at the National Archives (PRO Kew) - see links #4 and #5 - refer to an earlier accident at RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire on 30 October 1951. The aircraft was repaired and returned to service.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.142. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 348
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/73: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424194
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/32/S2549: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578395
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
31-May-2008 12:03	JINX	Added
05-Jun-2008 22:17	JINX	Updated
12-May-2015 12:55	Charlie Harper	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
24-Dec-2019 22:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
25-Dec-2019 12:00	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
17-Apr-2021 17:51	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
17-Apr-2021 17:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
18-Apr-2021 16:27	Koumas	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]