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Date: | Friday 17 July 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor NF Mk 11 |
Owner/operator: | 228 OCU RAF |
Registration: | WM166 |
MSN: | S4/U/2341 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor NF.11 WM166, 228 OCU, RAF Leeming: delivered 22/9/1952. Written off 17/7/1953, in an accident at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire.
Aircraft undershot when on final approach to RAF Leeming due to adverse weather conditions and poor visisbility. The undercariage collapsed on impact due to a "hard" landing. Despite the aircraft being wrecked (deemed "damaged beyond repair") both crew escaped without injury.
Wreckage formally struck off charge as Cat.5(c) on 27/7/1953 at 60 MU RAF Rufforth, North Yorkshire, and authorised to be reduced to spares and produce
WM166 was built by Armstrong-Whitworth, and, as such, was displayed on their stand at the 1952 SBAC Air Show at Farnborough on 1-7/9/1952 (see links #6 & #7)
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.147 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p 389
3. 228 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/3/1951 to 31/12/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR AIR 29/2166 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4101876 4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WM 5.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160310233713/http://ejection-history.org.uk/squadron_228_ocu/squadron_228ocu.htm 6. Meteor WM166 at SBAC Airshow, Farnborough, September 1952:
https://wings-on-film.fandom.com/wiki/WM166 7.
http://farnboroughspotter.weebly.com/1952.html 8.
https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW046640 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Mar-2014 08:15 |
Nepa |
Added |
04-May-2021 19:32 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-May-2021 08:26 |
INV |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Operator] |
05-May-2021 12:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |