Date:	Tuesday 19 April 1955
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB Mk 1
Owner/operator:	FWS RAF
Registration:	WK433
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB Mk 1 WK433: Delivered 21/12/54. RAF service career was with the CGS (Central Gunnery School) and the FWS (Fighter Weapons School) both based at RAF Leconfield

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 19/4/55: While the aircraft was landing at RAF Leconfield, the pilot retracted the undercarriage in error for air brakes on approach. The Venom then bellylanded, slid along the runway at Leconfield, and caught fire. The airframe was burnt out, but the pilot escaped with minor injuries.

Fire-damaged remains were Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(s) on 19/4/55 by 60 MU RAF Rufforth, North Yorkshire

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.170 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p.66)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.129
4. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH112%20prodn%20list.txt

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jun-2008 07:22	JINX	Added
28-May-2015 15:29	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Destination airport]
11-May-2020 21:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-May-2020 08:29	Boile A.	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Operator]