This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can
submit corrected information.
Date: | Thursday 18 September 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | 12 RFS RAF |
Registration: | WD307 |
MSN: | C1/0249 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Coaley, 5 miles SW of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WD307, 12 RFS (Reserve Flying School) RAF: delivered 11/1/1951. Written off 18/9/1952, when crashed at Coaley, five miles south-west of Stroud, Gloucestershire. During a training sortie from RAF Aston Down, there occured an incident when neither pilot was in control of the aircraft. Each pilot (QFI Instructor Pilot and Pupil Pilot under instruction) throught that the other was flying the aircraft, with the result that no-one was flying the aircraft, which led to the Chipmunk flying into the ground and overturning.
Despite this, the two crew survived with only minor injuries. The subsequent RAF Board of Inquiry deemed that the accident was due to both crew members not using the established procedure for handing over control of the aircraft, and then confirming that control had been passed to the other pilot.
Aircraft not repaired, Struck Off Charge 30/9/1952 at No.49 MU Colerne, as Cat.5(s) and scrapped
The reported crash location of Coaley is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire roughly 4 miles from the town of Dursley, and 5 miles from the town of Stroud.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.118 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.184
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD 5.
https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaley Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jun-2008 04:39 |
JINX |
Added |
19-Oct-2018 14:05 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
24-Mar-2021 20:14 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
24-Mar-2021 21:21 |
Newton |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |