Date:	Tuesday 1 March 1955
Time:	day
Type:	Avro Anson T Mk 21
Owner/operator:	CNCS RAF
Registration:	WB463
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	2.5 miles SW of RAF Shawbury, Shropshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Shawbury, Shropshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Avro Anson T.Mk.21 WB463: CNCS (Central Navigation & Control School) RAF Shawbury. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 1/3/55; the aircraft had climbed to an altitude of approximately 100 feet shortly after take off from RAF Shawbury, Shropshire. With the undercarriage just retracted, the port engine failed. The pilot - Sergeant R. Wall - was unable to get the aircraft to fly above safely speed, which left him with no other option but to land straight ahead with the undercarriage raised, in a field two-and-a-half miles south west of Shawbury.

The aircraft slid wheels up across a field, through a hedge and across a minor road, before coming to rest. The aircraft might have been repairable, and survived the accident, had it not been for the drop onto the road after passing through the hedge, which damaged the airframe beyond repair.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.165 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.120
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988 p.150)
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WB
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-avro-652-anson-t21-raf-shawbury

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Jun-2008 01:45	JINX	Added
20-Jun-2013 04:53	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport]
18-Jul-2013 09:55	JINX	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source]
16-Jan-2016 20:18	JIXN	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport]
25-Apr-2020 00:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source]
25-Apr-2020 09:19	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Nature, Operator]
07-May-2020 00:32	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
07-May-2020 08:22	MIG29	Updated [Operator, Operator]