Date:	Saturday 20 June 1959
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Javelin FAW.4
Owner/operator:	3 Sqn RAF
Registration:	XA750
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1.5 miles North west of Nörvenich, Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia -   Germany
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Nörvenich, Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia(ETNN)
Destination airport:	RAF Geilenkirchen, West Germany
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Javelin FAW.4 XA750,["A"], 3 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 20/6/59. Spun into the ground killing both crew when the pilot lost control after attempting a slow roll after take off from Norvenich, West Germany. It was returning to Geilenkirchen after having been in the static display at Norvenich Open Day. Aircraft came down one and a half miles North west of Nörvenich, six miles east of Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia

Crew of Javelin XA750:
Flight Lt Wilfred Smith Jacques, RAF (pilot, aged 35, Service number 181072) - killed 20/6/59 as per the above
Flying Officer David Alexander Ritchie (navigator, aged 23) - killed 20/6/59 as per the above

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.200 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft XA100-XZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 2001 p 10)
3. Gloster Javelin: An Operation History By Michael Napier p 246
4. History Of The Gloster Javelin By Ian Smith Watson
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/413: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424534
6. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/38/S2943: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578723
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XA
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rvenich
9. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1959.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Aug-2011 14:01	Uli Elch	Added
04-Jun-2013 12:12	Uli Elch	Updated [Location, Narrative]
09-Mar-2017 18:46	Anon.	Updated [Source]
16-Nov-2018 19:09	trigger 39	Updated [Source]
25-Jan-2020 20:30	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
25-Jan-2020 21:03	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]