Date:	Saturday 13 November 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	211 FTS RAF
Registration:	WE948
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire
Destination airport:	RAF Worksop
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WE948: Delivered to the RAF at 29 MU, High Ercoll, Shropshire 17.5.51. Issued to 211 AFS, RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire 7.11 .52. Re-assigned to the RAF Flying College at Manby 14.4.54; returned to 211 FTS 14.7.54.

Belly landed in error at RAF Worksop, Nottinghamshire, 13.11.54; believed pilot forgot to lower and lock undercarriage. Pilot, Pilot Officer J.L. Chorley, survived OK. Damage assessed as Cat 3(R). To 32 MU RAF St. Athan 3.1.55 for repairs. Re-assessed as Cat 4(R) 7.1.55; later re-catergorized as Cat. 5(C) and Struck Off Charge 10.6.55 after being broken up for components

NOTE: Some sources gave the date that Meteor WE948 was written off as "7.1.55" [sic]. However, as can be seen from the above, that date was the one when this aircraft was downgraded as Cat.4(R) and deemed beyond economic repair".

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.166 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.36)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.103
4. The Gloster Meteor in British Service By Martin Derry
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
6. http://www.air-britain.com/pdfs/sampleaeromil.pdf
7. http://rafworksop.btck.co.uk/AircraftBasedatWorksop

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Jun-2008 22:02	JINX	Added
13-May-2015 07:52	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
24-Oct-2017 19:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Dec-2018 07:20	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Operator]
28-Apr-2020 17:59	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Damage, Narrative]
28-Apr-2020 18:56	MIG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]