Date:	Friday 11 November 1960
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	Handling Sqn A&AEE
Registration:	WF766
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	3 miles NW of Lyme Regis, Dorset -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Boscombe Down, Wiltshire (EGDM)
Destination airport:	Boscombe Down, Wiltshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WF766, A&AEE Handling Squadron. Written off 11/11/1960: Seventeen minutes after take-off, aircraft disintegrated in flight over Axminster, Devon, killing the pilot. Wreckage impacted the ground three miles North West of Lyme Regis, Dorset
Crew:
Flight Lieutenant John Stewart DUNCAN AFC (pilot, Service Number 579850) RAF.

WF766 was struck off Charge 15/11/1960 at RAE Farnborough as CAT 5(Scrap)

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.203 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 39)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/442: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424563
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF
5. http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/memorial/entry.php?id=264
6. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=223794071079440&story_fbid=421246601334185
7. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1960-1969_29.html
8. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1960.htm
9. http://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorcrash.html
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_Royal_Air_Force_aircraft_from_1945#1960s
11. http://branches.britishlegion.org.uk/branches/northampton/post-1945-northamptonshire-roll-of-honour

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jun-2008 02:00	JINX	Added
08-Jul-2008 10:06	JINX	Updated
15-Aug-2011 22:24	meteor766	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
02-Feb-2012 12:25	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Jan-2013 15:10	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative]
14-Oct-2013 11:22	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative]
11-Mar-2014 20:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Mar-2014 19:03	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
27-Jan-2020 21:06	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative]
27-Jan-2020 22:44	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]
04-May-2020 20:47	AlLach	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]
01-Jun-2021 08:24	harro	Updated [Narrative]