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Date: | Monday 22 December 1952 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 54 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WK651 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 mile SSE of RAF Odiham, Hampshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8, WK651, 54 Sqaudron, RAF Odiham: delivered 13/3/1952. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 22/12/1952 when undershot runway on approach, crashed into trees on attempted overshoot, one mile South South-East of RAF Odiham, Basingstoke, Hampshire. The pilot was attempting to overshoot as a correction to the undershoot, trying to gain altitude, and then "go around again". The pilot - Pilot Officer R G Rafferty - was uninjured.
Wreckage transferred to 49 MU RAF Colerene, Wiltshire where Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) on 31/12/1952, and authorisied to be broken up for spares and scrap.
Sources:
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 p 69)
3. Last Take Off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cumings p 323
4. 54 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/12/1951 to 31/12/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 27/2619/106 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8424699 5.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/hancrash.html 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Jun-2008 19:39 |
JINX |
Added |
12-May-2015 08:49 |
ABBA |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport] |
05-Apr-2021 21:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Apr-2021 14:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
06-Apr-2021 14:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |