Date:	Friday 22 October 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hunter F1
Owner/operator:	43 (China-British) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WT590
MSN:	41H-665441
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leuchars, Fife (ADX/EGQL)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hunter WT590: First flown 21/06/1954, delivered 22/07/1954 to the RAF as 5 MU Kemble. Sold RAF service was with 43 Squadron, RAF Leuchars, Fife

Written off (destroyed) 22/10/54: Struck the ground after the engine failed on the approach to RAF Leuchars, Fife. Pilot did not eject, and was killed on impact.

Wreckage struck off charge as Cat.5(C) 25/10/1954, at No.63 MU Edzell.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.165 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.96)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.98
4. The Fighting Cocks: 43 (Fighter) Squadron p 39 By Jimmy Bedle
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WT
6. http://web.archive.org/web/20160324100552/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/BASES_RAF/Leuchars/raf_leuchars.htm
7. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194230/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1954.htm

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

16 November 1954	WT589	43 (China-British) Sqn RAF	0	St. Andrew's Bay, 7 miles east of RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland		w/o
24 January 1957	WT591	DFLS RAF	0	RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
03-Dec-2011 14:18	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Jan-2012 09:53	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
25-Apr-2020 23:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Jul-2023 10:37	Nepa	Updated [[Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]]