Date:	Thursday 31 December 1953
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	215 AFS RAF
Registration:	RA427
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF Finningley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
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:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7, RA427, 215 AFS (Advanced Flying School), RAF: Written off 31/12/1953 when crashed on approach to RAF Finningley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

The pilot was making an asymmetric (single engine) approach to RAF Finningley, and undershot on approach, making a forced landing in a field short of the runway. Although the aircraft was wrecked (written off as "damaged beyond economic repair") the pilot appears to have escaped uninjured.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.152 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 439
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft SPA100-W#RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
4. 215 AFS ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/2/1952 to 30/6/1954: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/2143/3 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162857

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-May-2021 17:21	Dr. John Smith	Added
25-May-2021 21:12	Xindel	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
27-May-2021 16:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]