Date:	Friday 12 December 1952
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	CGS RAF
Registration:	WH425
MSN:	G5/415582
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH425, CGS (Central Gunnery School) RAF: delivered 7/5/1952. Written off 12/12/1952 in a landing accident at RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire. The undercarriage was ripped off when the aircraft stalled and dived into the ground at a low altitude. The pilot managed to take command of the situation, overshoot the landing, and make a successful belly landing at Leconfield.

The aircraft was wrecked (damaged beyond repair) - WH425 was initially classed as Cat.4(R) ("severley damaged but repairable"), but was re-classified on 31/12/1952 as Cat.5(c) and struck off charge to be reduced to spares and produce. The pilot apparently walked awy from the crash uninjured.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.139 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.319
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Jun-2008 09:48	JINX	Added
12-May-2015 08:50	Xindel	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
02-Apr-2021 23:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
06-Apr-2021 16:59	Robbo	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
07-Apr-2021 16:29	Don Diego	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]