Date:	Friday 27 July 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	8 FTS RAF
Registration:	WA200
MSN:	EEP/42...
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk.5 WA200: Delivered 5/9/50. RAF Service career was with 94 Squadron and 8 FTS, RAF Swinderby.

Written off 27/7/1956: After a normal touch down at RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, the aircraft continued down the runway in a tail down attitude. It then swung to starboard along the runway, then climbed steeply and side slipped into the ground, cartwheeled and caught fire on impact with the ground. Accident possibly caused by a spanner found in the port boom, which had wedged the elevator control upwards

Pilot - Lieutenant A. Ahmed (Royal Iraqi AF) - pilot under training under RAF Command - killed.

According to some sources, this fatal flight was the first ever solo flight by the Iraqi pilot in a DH Vampire single seater.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.181 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 8)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.204
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/347: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424468
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/35/S2828: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578608
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
7. http://simviation.com//lair/casualty1956.htm
8. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
9. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
10. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs#1956

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Mar-2008 14:31	JINX	Added
08-Jun-2008 14:51	JINX	Updated
22-Mar-2013 12:36	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
19-May-2015 21:15	DB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
20-Jan-2020 19:47	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
20-Jan-2020 19:47	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
20-Jan-2020 22:03	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]
24-Jun-2020 00:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
24-Jun-2020 00:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
24-Jun-2020 00:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
25-Jun-2020 13:38	Allach	Updated [Operator, Operator]