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Date: | Tuesday 10 October 1950 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Percival Prentice T Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 6 FTS RAF |
Registration: | VS367 |
MSN: | 5830/14 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Levedale, 1 mile west of Dunston, Staffordshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Percival Prentice T.Mk.1 VS367, 6 FTS, RAF: Blackburn-built. Written off (destroyed) 10-10-1950. The aircraft went into a spin from a very low altitude, probably caused by a decay in airspeed, leading to a stall. The Prentice dived into the ground at Levedale, Staffordshire, and the pilot was killed
Crew of Prentice VS367:
Officer Cadet Nathaniel Henry Stirling MICKLEM, RAF (pilot, aged 19) - killed on active service 10-10-1950.
The reported crash location of Levedale is a small somewhat elongated English village situated some 4 miles southwest of Stafford, 2 miles northwest of Penkridge and a mile west of Dunston, Staffordshire.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.107 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.88
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VS 5.
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/photolists/%40MAR_11_18.pdf 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levedale Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jan-2021 04:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
02-Jan-2021 10:34 |
Allach |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
26-Jun-2022 00:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Category] |