Date:	Tuesday 10 November 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	CFS RAF
Registration:	WH131
MSN:	G5/442108
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Donnington, 2 miles North of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Little Rissington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T Mk 7, WH131, CFS (Central Flying School), RAF: delivered 26/11/1951. Written off (destroyed) 10/11/1953 when abandoned in inverted spin.

During a stall turn, from the top of a loop, the aircraft flicked into a spin to the left. Recovery action was taken, and the spin stopped. Immediately, however, the Meteor went into an inverted spin to the right. Neither pilot could effect a recovery from the inverted spin, and both crew bailed out safely. The Meteor came down near Donnington, two miles North of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

Crew of Meteor WH131:
PIlot Officer J. Armstrong, RAF (pilot, aged 21) - survived, bailed out safely
Pilot Officer S R Jones, RAF (co-pilot, aged 28) - survived, bailed out safely

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.153 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 429
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH
5. https://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnington,_Gloucestershire
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stow-on-the-Wold

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

16 July 1952

WH130

203 AFS RAF

1

1.5 miles south of Ottringham, Holderness, East Yorkshire, England

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-Jun-2008 19:25	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 17:14	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
19-May-2021 23:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
20-May-2021 08:32	BlBe	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]
22-May-2021 17:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
23-May-2021 12:19	Adam	Updated [Operator, Operator]