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Date: | Saturday 3 March 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.113 Vampire NF(T) Mk 10 |
Owner/operator: | CNCS RAF |
Registration: | WM677 |
MSN: | 13050 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Cookley Green, 2 miles South of Watlington, Oxfordshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Shawbury, Shropshire (EGOS) |
Destination airport: | RAF Benson, Oxfordshire (EGUB) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Written off 3/3/56: Hit trees on rising ground in bad visibility near Cookley Green, two miles south of Watlington, Oxfordshire while on approach to RAF Benson. Both crew (Central Navigation & Control School) were killed.
Crew of Vampire WM677:
Flight Sergeant Bickley Julian Marriott RAF (pilot, Service Number 1818012, aged 30) - killed on active service 3/3/56, Buried at St Mary's Churchyard and Extension, Shawbury, Shropshire
Sergeant John Blanchland Chapman RAF (Passenger, aged 23) - killed on active service 3/3/56
Sergeant John Blanchland Chapman was not aircrew - he was ground crew (an airframe engineer/fitter) who had been taken on board as a passenger on an "air experience flight"
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.177 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 79)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.183
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH113%20prodn%20list.txt 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm 6.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WM 8.
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