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Date: | Monday 28 September 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 226 OCU RAF |
Registration: | WH407 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Honington, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Honington, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Honington, Suffolk |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH407, 226 OCU, RAF Honington: delivered 20/3/1952. Written off (destroyed) 28/9/1953, when crashed at RAF Honington, Suffolk
The aircraft flew into the ground after the pilot failed to take the appropriate recovery action from a dive at high altitude. Cause unknown, but possible anoxia (oxygen starvation) may have been a part of the reason that the pilot failed to pull out of the terminal dive. The pilot was killed
Crew of Meteor WH407:
Pilot Officer Charles Kennedy GROVER (pilot) RAF - killed in service 28/9/1953
Wreckage recovered and Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) 13/10/1953.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.150 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 415
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 08:28 |
JINX |
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12-May-2015 17:11 |
BlB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
17-May-2021 13:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Time, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
17-May-2021 20:13 |
Angel Dick one |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative, Operator] |