Date:	Thursday 20 August 1953
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	10 RFS RAF
Registration:	WP923
MSN:	C1/0799
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Combe-in-Teignhead, 3 miles E of Newton Abbot, Devon, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DHC-10 Chipmunk T.10 WP923, 10 RFS, RAF: Delivered 31/12/1952. Written off (destroyed) 20/8/53 when crashed at Combe-in-Teignhead, three miles east of Newton Abbot, Devon

The pilot had been carrying out authorised aerobatics at an altitude of 4,000 feet, and then descended to 1,500 feet. On levelling out, he opened up the throttle, but received no response from the engine. Suspecting carburettor icing, he set the carburettor heating to 'hot', and worked the throttle, but to no noticeable response. The pilot then set the carburettor heating to 'cold', and made a forced landing at Combe-in-Teignhead, near Newton Abbot, Devon. The aircraft stalled and crashed during this forced landing, and was written off. The pilot was badly injured, though not fatally

The reported crash location of Combeinteignhead or Combe-in-Teignhead is a village in Teignbridge, South Devon, England. It lies within the civil parish of Haccombe with Combe, between Newton Abbot and Shaldon, about half a mile inland from the estuary of the River Teign

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.149 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 405
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 67)
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK
5. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=343
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combeinteignhead

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
11-May-2021 17:34	Dr. John Smith	Added
11-May-2021 19:48	Faun	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
02-May-2023 05:31	Stalm	Updated [[Operator, Location, Operator]]