Date:	Tuesday 18 March 1952
Time:	day
Type:	Airspeed Oxford Mk I
Owner/operator:	9 AFTS RAF
Registration:	HN762
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Offchurch, 3 miles east of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield (EGBW), Warwickshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Airspeed Oxford Mk.1 HN762, 9 AFTS, RAF Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, Warwickshire: Delivered to 9 AFTS 4/2/1952. Written off 18/3/1952 when crashed at Offchurch, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Leamington Spa Warwickshire. The pilot had been assigned to undertake some stalling practice in Oxford HN762. Durng one stall, the aircraft went out of control and began to descend rapidly in an unrecoverable spin. As the pilot could not recover the spin, he decided to abandon the aircraft and bail out. He parchuted to earth safely, the Oxford was destroyed on impact with the ground

Crew of Oxford HN762:
Acting Pilot Officer (2519444) E R Rayner (pilot) RAF - bailed out safely

The incidient did no harm to Acting P/O Rayner's RAF career - he was promoted to a fully fledged Pilot Officer shortly afterwards, effective 30/7/1952

The reported crash location of Offchurch is a village and civil parish on the River Leam, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. at approximate co ordinates 52.290°N 1.475°W

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.124 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.227
3. The Oxford Consul & Rmvoy File (John F Hamlin, Air Britain, 2001 p.185
4. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offchurch
6. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39640/supplement/4776/data.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Mar-2021 02:45	Dr. John Smith	Added
01-Mar-2021 21:50	Castle	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator]