Date:	Tuesday 15 March 1949
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito NF Mk 36
Owner/operator:	228 OCU RAF
Registration:	RL247
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	nr Theakston, 1mile SSW of RAF stn Leeming, North Yorkshire, England. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Leeming

Narrative:
Mosquito RL247: Took off for a Training flight 15/03/1949
Engine cut on approach, force landed near Theakston, 1 mile SSW of RAF Leeming. The cause of the accident was that the Pilot had failed to transfer fuel from the outer to the inner fuel tanks and the engine was starved of fuel. The aircraft forced landed short of the runway at RAF Leeming, and was badly damaged.
Crew: ???? Ok

1..www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents. Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain
3.Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p 486
4.ORB 228 OCU RAF for the period 1-5-47 to 31-12-50: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/1634: 5.https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101344
6.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Leeming#1950%E2%80%931990
7.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theakston,_North_Yorkshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Feb-2014 16:18	Nepa	Added
28-May-2014 15:16	Nepa	Updated [Narrative]
18-Jun-2014 16:53	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative]
11-Jul-2014 05:11	Shout	Updated [Total fatalities, Location, Narrative]
26-Jul-2015 10:28	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location]
30-Mar-2019 21:13	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative, Operator]
22-Jan-2021 10:25	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Operator]
27-Nov-2021 21:46	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Narrative, Operator]