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Date: | Sunday 1 January 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 504 (County of Nottingham) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WE873 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 3 miles NW of Mildenhall, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wymeswold, Leicestershire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WE873: Delivered 17/5/51. RAF service career was with 247 Squadron and 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron RAF
Written off (destroyed) 1/1/56: Control lost during practice interception, aircraft abandoned as unable to recover from inverted spin. Crashed three miles North West of Mildenhall, Suffolk after the pilot abandoned the aircraft following loss of control. According to one unofficial source "a wing broke off, which damaged the tail and control surfaces"
Crew: Pilot Officer C. H. SMITH, RAFVR (pilot, Service Number 5190027) - ejected OK.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 35)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.171
4. 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/51 to 31/3/57: File AIR 27/2710 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505348 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 7.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 8.
http://web.archive.org/web/20170723045955/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1956.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Jun-2008 15:22 |
JINX |
Added |
22-Mar-2010 11:10 |
504Historian |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
08-Sep-2012 19:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Phase, Source, Narrative] |
11-May-2013 08:17 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
26-May-2013 18:04 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
26-May-2017 16:39 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Oct-2017 18:50 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
08-Jun-2020 18:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
08-Jun-2020 19:08 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
08-Jun-2020 21:22 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
20-Jul-2023 21:39 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Narrative]] |