Date:	Tuesday 30 August 1949
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 4
Owner/operator:	257 Sqn RAF
Registration:	VT137
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Acklington, Amble, Northumberland, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Acklington, Northumberland

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor VT137; Delivered to 257 Squadron RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire 8.4.48 as 'A6-B'.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when brakes failed on landing at RAF Acklington, Amble, Northumberland 30.8.49. The brakes failed on landing, due to a brake fluid nipple shearing off at the cable connection. To avoid overshooting into a quarry, the pilot swung the aircraft off the runway, but the aircraft then ran into a 25-feet deep gulley and was severely damaged.

Pilot Flt Lt S Kirtley survived OK. Damage initially assessed as Cat B; re-cat E 15.9.49 and Struck Off Charge

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4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf p.172
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