Date:	Wednesday 17 April 1957
Time:
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	65 (East India) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WL177
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridegshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WL177: Notified as awaiting collection 26/2/1954, delivered 2/3/1954. Operational service career was with 1 Squadron RAF Tangmere, 64 Squadron and 65 Squadron RAF Duxford as "F".

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 17/4/1957: Undercarriage collapsed on landing, swung off runway & DBR. According to one source (see link #5) the Meteor "failed to stop at the end of Runway 24 (eastern end), and carried on across Hunts Road before coming to a halt."

Struck off charge 30/5/1957 as Cat.5(c) and reduced to spares and produce at 58 MU RAF Sutton Bridge

1. Hilley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.189 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 72)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.243
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/111543-raf-duxford-meteor-incident-1950-s
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2008 19:28	JINX	Added
27-May-2013 06:25	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
03-Aug-2020 23:40	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Jul-2021 20:40	Anon.	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Operator]