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Date: | Tuesday 4 May 1954 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | RAF College |
Registration: | WK568 |
MSN: | C1/0587 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Punchbowl Lane, 2 miles NW of Boston, Lincolnshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire (EGYD) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:On 04/05/1954 Chipmunk T.10 WK 568 stalled while low flying, and dived into the ground 2 miles north-west of Boston, Lincolnshire, killing the pilot, who was flying solo training flight from Cranwell. Per a report in the "Boston Standard" "60 Years Ago" column (7 May 2014):
"...a 19-year-old RAF Cranwell Cadet died after the aircraft he was flying solo in crashed into a field off Punchbowl Lane in Boston. The cadet, from London, was piloting a single engined Chipmunk Trainer aircraft when it came down in a field of peas and caught fire"
Crew of Chipmunk WK568
Flight Cadet Anthony Victor Bennett (pilot, aged 19)
Struck Off Charge 01/06/1954 as CAT 5(scrap) at 54 MU RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.158 ISBN 0-85130-290-4
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1983 p.68)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.56
4. Boston Standard 7/5/2014:
http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/archives 5.
http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=343 6.
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1950s-incident-logs 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WK Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Jun-2008 13:21 |
JINX |
Added |
07-May-2014 19:38 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
08-Apr-2020 23:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |