Date:	Friday 3 May 1957
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson C Mk 19
Owner/operator:	TC CF RAF
Registration:	VM389
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Upavon, Wiltshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Upavon, Wiltshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Anson C.19 VM389, TCCF (Transport Command Communications Flight), RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 3/5/1957. Swung off the runway on take off from RAF Upavon, Wiltshire causing the undercarriage to collapse. No injuries reported to the two crew. Not repaired, struck off charge 6/5/1957

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.182 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 90)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.210
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air britain, 1988)
5. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VM

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Aug-2020 15:06	Dr. John Smith	Added
04-Aug-2020 19:41	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator]
13-May-2021 21:02	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]