Date:	Sunday 20 January 1952
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	19 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE864
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WE864: Delivered 19 Squadron 8.5.51. Written off 20.1.52 when collided with Meteor F.Mk.8 WE868 (also of 19 Squadron) and abandoned near Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire, during practice attack on an Avro Lincoln. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant G M Smith, ejected succsessfuly, at 9,000 feet, while the Meteor was in a diving turn, but was injured due to having initial problems in finding the ejection handle, and separating from his seat. He sustained a dislocated right knee due to his legs flailing, and a fractured right leg and spine on ejection.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.124 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.215
4. 19 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/12/1956: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 27/2693/1 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8427223
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194544/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1952.htm
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mid-air_collisions_and_incidents_in_the_United_Kingdom#1950s
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Jun-2008 14:30	JINX	Added
12-May-2012 16:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-May-2012 16:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [[Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]]
15-Aug-2012 07:55	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
26-May-2017 16:07	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative]
22-Feb-2021 22:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]
23-Feb-2021 02:39	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
19-May-2021 09:08	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Operator]