Date:	Tuesday 5 June 1956
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	5 FTS RAF
Registration:	WG800
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Black Bank, 2.25 miles WSW of Littleport, Cambridgeshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.Mk.5 WG800, 5 FTS RAF: Written off (destroyed) 5/6/56 - Abandoned in spin after the pilot ejected following loss of control during practice aerobatics, and crashed at Black Bank, 2.25 miles West-South-West of Littleport, Cambridgeshire. Pilot bailed out safely. According to a contemporary newspaper report ("Cambridge Daily News" 6 June 1956):

"The pilot of a Mark 5 Vampire training jet based at R.A.F. Oakington was forced to bale out of his machine while flying over Littleport. He landed safely in Camel Road and the plane crashed at the side of a cornfield at Black Bank, Little Downham causing a crater 15 feet deep. Norah Garner and Neville Constable ran to the wreckage and could see there was no one in it. The nose was sticking up in the air"

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.180 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 46)
3. Cambridge Daily News 6 June 1956: https://archive.org/stream/OakingtonScrapbook1897To1990/Oakington%20Scrapbook%201897%20to%201990_djvu.txt
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WG

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jun-2008 14:50	JINX	Added
18-May-2015 18:03	MiG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
10-Jan-2020 22:02	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Nature, Operator]
17-Jan-2020 00:50	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]