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Date: | Friday 16 October 1953 |
Time: | night |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | RAF College Cranwell |
Registration: | WP858 |
MSN: | C1/0743 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Boothby Pagnell, 2 miles South East of Spitalgate, Lincolnshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WP858: Delivered 23/9/52. Sole RAF career was with the RAF College at Cranwell, Lincolnshire
Written off (destroyed) 16/10/53 when flew into the ground at night at Boothby Pagnell, two miles South-East of Spitalgate, Lincolnshire. The aircraft flew a normal circuit, until approximately half-way around the downwind leg of the final approach to RAF Spitalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire. At this point, the aircraft began to lose altitude, before making a left-hand turn, and dived into the ground. The pilot (flying a night solo sortie) was killed
Crew of Chipmunk WP858:
Flight Cadet Reginald Alfred STEVENS, RAF (pilot, aged 19) - killed in service 16/10/1953
The reported crash location of Boothby Pagnell is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population is now included in the civil parish of Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe at approximate coordinates 52.866770°N 0.558159°W.
NOTE: Several published sources give the date of the crash as 16/10/1955 not 16/10/1953, and the pilot's name as "Strevens" not "Stevens"
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.151 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 84)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.421
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WP 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boothby_Pagnell 6.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1953 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Nov-2011 09:31 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
31-May-2020 19:43 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
19-May-2021 17:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Location, Source, Narrative] |
19-May-2021 17:37 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |