Date:	Monday 31 December 1951
Time:	day
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:	101 FRS RAF
Registration:	NA907
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire. England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Taxi
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Finningley, South Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington T.Mk.X NA907, 101 FRS (Flying Refresher School), RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 31/12/1951. The Wellington was damaged beyond repair when it taxiied over a disused cesspit at RAF Finningley, the cover of which gave way under the weight of the aircraft. The comments of the pilot - Sergeant J H Stannard - at being (quite literally) "dropped in the s**t" are not recorded in the 101 FRS Operations Record Book!

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.123 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft NA100-NZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.209
4. 101 FRS ORB (Operations Record Book) (Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/1/1952: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2319/1 at hhttps://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7163235

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Feb-2021 02:41	Dr. John Smith	Added
20-Feb-2021 02:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
20-Feb-2021 02:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
20-Feb-2021 02:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
20-Feb-2021 09:49	Slizack	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]