Date:	Friday 21 October 1955
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB Mk I
Owner/operator:	187 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE479
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Meerbrook Camp, Little Malvern, Worcestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hawarden, Chester (EGNR)
Destination airport:	RAF Bruggen, West Germany
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.Mk.1 WE479: Notified as awaiting collection 24/2/54. Initially held at 48 MU RAF Hawarden, Cheshire, pending allocation. Taken on charge by 187 Squadron, RAF:

Written off (destroyed) 21/10/55 when crashed at Meerbrook Camp, Little Malvern, five miles west north-west of Upton on Severn, Worcestershire. Some sources state that the crash was due to a forced landing caused by engine failure. The aircraft was on change with 187 Squadron temporarily, purely for the purpose of the delivery flight from the manufacturers (De Havilland Aircraft at Hawarden, Chester) to the RAF (probably 431 MU at RAF Bruggen, West Germany)

Pilot - Flight Lieutenant Humphrey K Sellers (Service Number 576026, aged 32) - was killed.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.175 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 33)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.164
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/306: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424427
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/34/S2787: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578567
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE
7. http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._187_Squadron_RAF#Postwar_period
9. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39239/supplement/2938/data.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Jun-2008 17:25	JINX	Added
18-Jun-2008 07:33	JINX	Updated
28-May-2015 15:34	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
16-Jan-2020 00:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
31-May-2020 21:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Destination airport, Narrative]
31-May-2020 21:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source]
01-Jun-2020 10:29	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]