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Date: | Monday 8 October 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | 1 BFTS RAF |
Registration: | WD300 |
MSN: | C1/0241 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Chearsley, 4 miles North of Thame, Buckinghamshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | RAF Thame, Haddenham, Oxfordshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WD300, 1 BFTS (Basic Flying Training School) RAF: delivered 12/1/1951. Written off 8/10/1951 when Engine failed on approach to practice forced landing, due to the pilot opening up the throttle too quickly, causing the engine to fail to "pick up". The aircraft then struck the ground near Chearsley, four miles North of Thame, Buckinghamshire, pivoted on its nose and swung around. No reported injuries to the pilot.
The reported crash location of Chearsley is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated about seven miles south west of Aylesbury, and about four miles north of Thame, in Oxfordshire.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.118 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.184
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WD 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chearsley Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Jun-2008 04:19 |
JINX |
Added |
19-Nov-2018 18:46 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
10-Feb-2021 20:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |