Date:	Monday 23 February 1953
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
Owner/operator:	1 BFTS RAF
Registration:	WG406
MSN:	C1/0480
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1.5 miles SE of RAF Thame, Haddenham, Oxfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Thame, Haddenham, Oxfordshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
DHC-1 Chipmunk T10, WG406, 1 BFTS (Basic Flying Training School) RAF: delivered 25/9/1951. Written off 23/2/1953 when crashed in a flying accident one-and-a-half miles South-East of RAF Thame, Haddenham, Oxfordshire.

The pilot was carrying out a series of practice forced landings near Thame, Oxfordshire. The aircraft descended to a very low altitude, and the pilot allowed the aircraft to stall, at which point, it dived steeply into the ground. The pilot (flying solo) was killed

Crew of Chipmunk WG406:
Pilot Officer John Jeffrey CATLIN (pilot) RAF - killed in serivce 23/2/1953

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.141 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.343
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WG

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jun-2008 02:38	JINX	Added
19-Nov-2018 18:43	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Phase, Nature, Narrative, Operator]
14-Apr-2021 20:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Apr-2021 15:43	Don Diego	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, Operator]