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Date: | Thursday 14 September 1950 |
Time: | morning |
Type: | Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 |
Owner/operator: | CFE RAF |
Registration: | VW431 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1.5 miles west of Wendling, Breckland, Norfolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor VW431, CFE (Central Fighter Establishment), RAF: delivered 05/07/1949. Written off (destroyed) 14/09/1950 when collided with USAF F-84D 48-754. The Meteor came down one-and-a-half miles west of Wendling, Breckland, Norfolk. Both pilots (one in each aircraft) were killed.
Crew of Meteor VW431:
Flight Lieutenant Ronald William HAPPE, RAF (Service Number 182710) - killed on active service 14-9-1950
The reported crash location is one-and-a-half miles west of Wendling, a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk at approximate co-ordinates 52.67904°N 0.85516°E
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.106 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.83
4.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbasn.asp?offset=4775 5.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1946.html 6.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=VW 7. F-84 Crash:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/115347 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendling,_Norfolk 9.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37942/supplement/1900/data.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Mar-2013 01:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
17-Jun-2013 13:37 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2014 18:35 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2014 19:23 |
TB |
Updated [Time] |
30-Dec-2020 20:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Dec-2020 20:59 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
26-Jun-2022 00:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Category] |