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Date: | Tuesday 4 November 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 226 OCU RAF |
Registration: | WH362 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Thorpe Road Station, Norwich, Norfolk, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Horsham St. Faith, Norwich, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Stradishall, Suffolk |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH362, 226 OCU RAF Stradishall: Delivered 8/2/1952. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 4/11/1952 when collided in flight with WF687, another Meteor F.Mk.8 of 226 OCU RAF Stradishall over Norwich, Norfolk, shortly after a formation take off and turn from RAF Horsham St. Faith, Norwich. Meteor WH362 struck Meteor WF687 with its port wing. The wing broke away, and wreckage fell onto Thorpe Road Station, Norwich
Meteor WH362 spun into the ground at Norwich, and the pilot was killed; Meteor WF687 managed to stay airborne long enough to make a wheels-up emergency landing back at base (RAF Stradishall). Despite being wrecked, the pilot of Meteor WF687 survived uninjured.
Crew of Meteor WH362
Pilot Officer Ronald Alfred BARNES (pilot) RAF - killed in service 4/11/1952
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.135 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 306
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. 226 OCU ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2165/1 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162873 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Jun-2008 07:38 |
JINX |
Added |
12-May-2015 08:58 |
Cliford |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
28-Mar-2021 22:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Mar-2021 22:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
29-Mar-2021 09:43 |
Dr.Roup |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |
29-Mar-2021 17:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |