Date:	Sunday 3 October 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Owner/operator:	602 (City of Glasgow) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WA629
MSN:	G5/356531
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Blair Drummond, 6 miles NW of Stirling, Stirlingshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Abbotsinch, Renfrewshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7 WA629: Delivered 22/11/49. RAF Service was with 56 Squadron, ITF (Instrument Training Flight) RAF West Raynham and 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron, RAF.

Written off (destroyed) 3/10/54: During a climb out from Abbotsinch, Renfrewshire to 20,000 feet, the artificial horizon failed, and therefore the pilot decided to return to Abbotsinch. However, during a descent through cloud, all the other instruments also failed, caused by a freezing of the pitot tube. Both crew abandoned the Meteor T.7 safely, although one was injured. The Meteor came down near Blair Drummond, 6 miles North West of Stirling, Stirlingshire

Crew of Meteor WA629:
Flying Officer I.E.Hogg RAF (pilot) - bailed out and sustained slight injuries
Sergeant J Watson RAF - bailed out safely

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.164 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.11)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.94
4. The Gloster Meteor in British Service By Martin Derry
5. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron Operational Record Book (ORB)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) 1/1/46 to 28/2/57: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2505 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2505143
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_Drummond

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-May-2008 21:11	JINX	Added
09-Jun-2008 10:09	JINX	Updated
10-Jan-2012 14:19	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Source]
17-Apr-2020 01:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Departure airport]
23-Apr-2020 22:36	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]