Date:	Sunday 14 December 1952
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T10
Owner/operator:	22 RFS RAF
Registration:	WG325
MSN:	C1/0397
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Lode, 6 miles NNE of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Cambridge (Teversham) Airport (EGSC)
Destination airport:	Cambridge (Teversham) Airport (EGSC)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WG325, 22 RFS (Reserve Flying School), RAF: delivered 3/7/1951. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14/12/1952: While the instructor was demonstrating the selection of a site for a forced landing, the Chipmunk struck a large flock of birds, which had risen up in front of the aircraft. The pilot instinctively ducked his head down into the cockpit, and while all this was happening, the aircraft lost altitude, struck a tree, overturned, and crashed into a field near Lode, 6 miles North North-East of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

No fatalities reported. Aircraft not repaired, Struck Off Charge 22/12/1952 as CAT 5(S) and reduced to scrap and produce

The reported crash location is near Lode is a small village in East Cambridgeshire on the southern edge of The Fens. It lies just north of the B1102 between Quy and Swaffham Bulbeck, 8 miles (13 km) to the north east of Cambridge.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.138 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.320
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WF
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode,_Cambridgeshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jun-2008 02:21	JINX	Added
26-May-2014 07:57	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Phase, Nature]
02-Mar-2017 00:00	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
02-Mar-2017 00:01	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
13-Mar-2019 08:50	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
03-Apr-2021 00:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
03-Apr-2021 15:11	Xindel	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]