Date:	Saturday 26 February 1955
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	63 Sqn RAF
Registration:	WE884
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Longham, 1 mile north of Wendling, Breckland, Norfolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WE884: Delivered to RAF at 29 MU High Ercall 19.6.51. First issued to 63 Sqn 14.11.52 coded Y. Written off (damaged beyond repair) when Hit birds and engine caught fire; abandoned over Longham, 1 mile North of Wendling, Breckland, Norfolk (at approximate co ordinates 52.70596°N 0.87488°E) on 26.2.55

Crew: Flying Officer Keith Norman CARPENTER RAF (pilot, Service No.584039) - ejected at 2,500 feet and 200 knots, but survived OK.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.168 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.35)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.117
4. The Gloster Meteor in British Service By Martin Derry
5. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL
6. http://www.air-britain.com/pdfs/sampleaeromil.pdf
7. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194119/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1955.htm#feb
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longham

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Jun-2008 15:33	JINX	Added
20-Jun-2013 04:51	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative]
18-Jul-2013 09:53	JINX	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
13-May-2015 08:16	Boile A.	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative]
26-May-2017 17:16	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
07-May-2020 00:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
08-May-2020 00:00	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
08-May-2020 08:20	MIG29	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]