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Date: | Thursday 5 September 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hunter F Mk 4 |
Owner/operator: | 167 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WT754 |
MSN: | 41H-670696 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Benson, Oxfordshire (BEX/EGUB) England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Benson, Oxfordshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hawker Hunter F.Mk.4 WT754: First flown 10-03-55 Duncan Simpson, Hawker Aircraft Ltd., Dunsfold, Surrey. Delivered. 02-03-55, 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire. To 118 Squadron, RAF Jever, Germany 28-4-55 as "Y". To 167 Squadron from 19-8-57
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5-9-57 after catching fire during engine start up at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire. Formally Struck off charge as Cat.5(scrap) on 8-10-57, but not actually scrapped until mid-1964
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.192 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 97)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.262
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
http://www.rafjever.org/118squadaircraft.htm 6.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jan-2009 11:55 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Mar-2012 09:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
17-Aug-2012 02:57 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
28-May-2013 19:51 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
11-Aug-2020 12:00 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative] |
11-Aug-2020 12:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
17-Jul-2023 07:46 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Narrative]] |