Date:	Tuesday 25 June 1957
Time:	day
Type:	Auster T.7
Owner/operator:	LAS RAF
Registration:	WE597
MSN:	3715
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1 mile WNW of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster T.7 WE597: Delivered 27/4/1951. Operational service career was as "A" of 662 Squadron, RAF and the LAS (Light Aircraft School) at RAF Middle Wallop,

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25/5/1957: Hit HT overhead cables flying up a valley and dived into the ground, one mile west-north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.190 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 34)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.253
4. www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=4289
6. http://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorcrash.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE

Auster T.7 WE597 as "A" of 662 Squadron

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
04-Jun-2008 22:23	JINX	Updated
02-Mar-2012 12:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Nov-2019 22:09	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
06-Aug-2020 23:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
15-Feb-2021 10:32	Xindel	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Operator]
15-Feb-2021 10:33	Xindel	Updated [Operator, Operator]