Date:	Thursday 14 August 1947
Time:
Type:	Gloster Meteor F.III
Owner/operator:	92 Sqn RAF
Registration:	EE409
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor EE409: Delivered to 541 Squadron 18.10.45. To 2 S of TT (School of Technical Training), RAF Cosford, Shropshire 9.4.46. To 234 Squadron 29.4.46; unit became 266 Squadron at RAF Boxted, Essex 1.9.46. To 91 Squadron, RAF Duxford 3.10.46, which became 92 Squadron 31.1.47 (still at RAF Duxford) coded 'DL-F'.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14.9.47: Landed with ventral tank half-full; stalled on approach and hit ground, Duxford, 14.8.47. The pilot flew what was described as a "reckless" approach to RAF Duxford, making a final turn at a very low altitude, and a half-full ventral tank, contrary to pre-flight briefed instructions. The Meteor then stalled and struck the ground from an altitude of 20 feet agl (above ground level) short of the runway at RAF Duxford.
Crew:
F/O N CLAYTON (pilot) RAF- survived OK

Damage initially assessed as Cat B; re-cat E 21.8.47 and struck off charge

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946-1949 p.328 by Colin Cummings
3. 92 Sqn RAF ORB for the period 1-2-1947 to 31-12-1950: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/2443/3: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8420865
4. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
5. Air Britain Aeromilitaria Summer 2009: https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf p.74-75
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._92_Squadron_RAF#Cold_War
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxford_Aerodrome#Postwar_use

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