Date:	Friday 21 July 1950
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire F Mk 22
Owner/operator:	613 (City of Manchester) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PK346
MSN:	SMAF15822
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Cuckoo Bridge, 3 miles southwest of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Horsham St. Faith, Norwich, Norfolk
Destination airport:	RAF Horsham St. Faith, Norwich, Norfolk
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
PK346: Spitfire F.22. Delivered to the RAF at 39 MU 11-8-45. Returned to VASM (Vickers Armstrong South Marston) 29-10-46 mods and refurbishment. First issued to 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron RAF at Ringway 30-12-48

Written off (destroyed) when dived into ground out of cloud at Cuckoo Bridge, 3 miles southwest of Spalding Lincolnshire 21-7-50. At the time, the squadron was detached from its home base at Ringway, Manchester for its summer camp at RAF Horsham St Faith, Norwich, Norfolk. (see Spitfire PK654 which was involved in a non-fatal accident just four days earlier). The pilot was killed.


Pilot II Louis OLLIER, RAF ( Service Number 2688577, aged 26) - killed in a flying accident 21/7/1950. Louis Ollier is buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester.
R.I.P.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.104 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.69
4. The Times, Saturday July 22nd 1950, p 2
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p085.html
6. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Sep-2013 03:16	JINX	Added
30-Sep-2013 11:34	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
01-Oct-2013 08:13	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
17-Oct-2013 14:11	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source]
17-Apr-2015 21:06	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]
08-May-2015 19:17	Angel dot comma	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
28-Aug-2019 09:53	angels one five	Updated [Narrative]
27-Dec-2020 01:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Apr-2021 12:19	angels one five	Updated [Narrative]
16-Jul-2021 03:37	angels one five	Updated [Location, Narrative]
20-Aug-2023 09:25	Nepa	Updated [[Location, Narrative]]