Date:	Monday 16 August 1954
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	DFLS RAF
Registration:	WA966
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1.5 miles south of Great Massingham, Norfolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF West Raynham, Norfolk
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WA966: Delivered 5th February 1951. RAF Service was with the CFE (Central Fighter Establishment) and the DFLS (Day Fighter Leaders School).

16th August 1954: RAF Meteor F.8 WA966 of DFLS (Day Fighter Leaders School) lost control and dived into the ground from cloud one and a half miles south of Great Massingham, Norfolk.
Pilot - Flight Lieutenant Durrani Hayat [Pakistan Air Force] - was killed.

The crash location was located 8 miles southwest of Fakenham, Norfolk and 12 miles east of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, at approximate co ordinates 52°46′50″N 000°40′36″E.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.162 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.16)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.83
4. http://web.archive.org/web/20170830215907/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Country-By-Country/Pakistan.htm
5. http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=730
6. https://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/70987-meteor-accident-statistics-10.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Great_Massingham

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
31-May-2008 20:34	JINX	Added
09-Jun-2008 10:08	JINX	Updated
01-May-2013 13:15	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
12-May-2015 17:35	BlB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
18-Apr-2020 22:15	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
19-Apr-2020 08:28	INV	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]