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Date: | Monday 27 May 1957 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 |
Owner/operator: | 5 FTS RAF |
Registration: | WA259 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Primrose Green, Breckland, 4 miles E of RAF Swanton Morley, Norfolk -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Swanton Morley, Norfolk |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 WA259: Delivered 23/11/1950. Operational service career was with 60 Squadron, 71 Squadron, 145 Squadron, 7FTS and 5 FTS RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Written off (Damaged beyond repair) 27/5/1957: Lost power due to an engine fire in flight, and was wrecked in a forced landing near Primrose Green, Breckland, four miles east of RAF Swanton Morley, Norfolk, while trying to make an emergency landing at Swanton Morley. No reported injuries to the pilot.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.189 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 9)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.249
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt 6.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-May-2008 14:29 |
JINX |
Added |
19-Jun-2008 04:42 |
JINX |
Updated |
18-May-2015 18:15 |
MiG21 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport] |
05-Aug-2020 18:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-Aug-2020 18:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
05-Aug-2020 19:57 |
Allach |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |