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Date: | Friday 17 July 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 |
Owner/operator: | 264 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WH243 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Lichfield, Fradley, Staffordshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Lichfield, Staffordshire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Meteor WH243: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 17 July 1953 in a landing accident at RAF Lichfield.
The aircraft undershot during an asymmetric (single engine) landing in conditions of heavy rain and poor visibility at RAF Lichfield. The undercarriage collapsed on touchdown, causing the aircraft to slide along the undershoot area on its belly. Wreckage recovered to 34 MU RAF Shrewsbury where Struck Off Charge on 27 July 1953 as Cat.5(c) and authorised to be reduced to spares and produce. Although the aircraft was wrecked (deemed "damaged beyond repair") the pilot appears to have been uninjured.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.146 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.389
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH 5. 264 Squadron ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Mininstry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/12/1951 to 31/15/1955: National Archives (PRO Kew) file AIR 27/2672/2 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8426905 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jun-2008 02:09 |
JINX |
Added |
01-Feb-2013 13:05 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport] |
11-Nov-2014 13:21 |
DG333 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
16-Apr-2020 15:44 |
Allach |
Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator] |
04-May-2021 18:32 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
08-Aug-2022 05:40 |
Nepa |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |