Date:	Tuesday 5 June 1951
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	226 OCU RAF
Registration:	VT325
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Wattisham, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Wattisham, Suffolk (EGUW)
Destination airport:	RAF Wattisham, Suffolk (EGUW)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F4, VT325 226 OCU, RAF: delivered 4/11/1948. Written off 5/6/1951 when made an emergency forced landing at RAF Wattisham, Suffolk. Both engines "flamed out" in flight, and could not be re-lit. An emergency landing was made with the wheels up, and at 90 degrees to the 'active' runway in use. Although the aircraft was wrecked, the pilot apparently survived without injuries

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.115 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 144
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
4. 226 OCU ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/5/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2165/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162873
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VT
6. http://www.wattisham.org.uk/wattisham_aviation_accidents.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
28-Jan-2021 20:24	Dr. John Smith	Added
28-Jan-2021 21:17	fanda	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Destination airport, Operator]
29-Jan-2021 23:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Narrative]
20-Mar-2021 14:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]