Date:	Monday 15 December 1952
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson T Mk 21
Owner/operator:	2 BANS RAF
Registration:	WD418
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	mile NW of RAF Usworth, near Sunderland, County Durham, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Usworth, County Durham
Destination airport:	RAF Usworth, County Durham
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Anson T.Mk.21 WD418/"N-O", 2 BANS (Basic Air Navigation School), RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 15/12/1952 when crashed into a field one mile North-West of RAF Usworth, near Sunderland, County Durham.

At the end of one of the training flights, a pilot decided to do a one-engine approach, overshot, lost critical flying speed and staggered along runway 23 at about 200 feet, tried to turn, spun in and went in near vertically into a field beyond the eastern boundary of the airfield (there were few houses there then - fortunately).

It didn't seem possible that anyone could possibly have survived. A wing-tip had caught the ground first and the Anson cartwheeled over, absorbing a lot of the impact, there was no fire because the tanks were pretty empty. Miraculously the 3 students walked away from the wreckage with only bruises, the pilot and navigating instructor suffered broken limbs and eventually recovered.

Probable cause: It was determined that the stall was caused by an insufficient approach speed.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.139 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.320
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Brtiain, 1988 p.151
5. http://www.neam.co.uk/usworth.html
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-avro-652-anson-t21-raf-usworth-0
7. https://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Losses/Losses-PostWWII.htm
8. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Jun-2008 15:37	JINX	Added
17-Mar-2012 07:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Feb-2017 23:43	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
27-Dec-2018 22:20	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator]
04-Apr-2021 21:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Apr-2021 21:51	INV	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]