Date:	Saturday 17 November 1951
Time:
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	85 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WF876
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF West Malling, Maidstone, Kent, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF West Malling, Kent
Destination airport:	RAF West Malling
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Meteor WF876: Written off 17/11/1951,when crashed on approach to RAF West Malling. While on the downwind leg of a normal approach to RAF West Malling, the starboard engine failed. The pilot attempted to make an emergency single-engine landing, but overshot the line of approach, and in an attempt to regain the line up to the runway, the Meteor stalled and dived into a field short of the runway. Of the two crew, one (the pilot) was killed, and the other (the co-pilot), was seriously injured.
Crew:
F/Lt Robert Campbell-Peat (pilot) RAF - killed
P/O (4038411) John L Halliday (Co-pilot) RAF - survived but injured.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.121 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.196
4. 85 Sqaudron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/1/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2704/28 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8427643
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jun-2008 11:54	JINX	Added
23-Jan-2012 05:28	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source]
23-Jan-2012 05:29	Nepa	Updated [Source]
15-Sep-2014 12:12	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Destination airport]
16-Oct-2018 16:14	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Destination airport, Source]
14-Feb-2021 00:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source]
14-Feb-2021 23:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total occupants, Source, Narrative]
15-Feb-2021 21:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
16-Feb-2021 21:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
23-Aug-2022 12:24	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]